[Catalog-sig] RSS 2.0

[Doug Hellmann]

On Sep 13, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Am 13.09.2010 11:59, schrieb Michael Foord:
>> 
>> 
>> On 12 September 2010 17:57, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de
>> <mailto:martin at v.loewis.de>> wrote:
>> 
>>>> So: Should I make this change?
>>> 
>>> If changing the protocol used is an option, would it not be better to
>>> use an actual specified standard: the Atom syndication protocol
>>> <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29>?
>> 
>>    For the issue at hand, certainly not: Atom does not have the enclosure
>>    element.
>> 
>> 
>> According to this article Atom supports enclosures through <link
>> rel="enclosure".... />
>> 
>> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-atom10.html#N100EB
> 
> Sure. However, I fail to see how this helps in resolving the issue
> at hand: Should PyPI support AppCast or not?

Yes, I think it would be useful.

Doug