[Catalog-sig] V2 pre-PEP: transitioning to release file hosting on PYPI

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 12.03.2013 20:46, PJ Eby wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:07 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>> Just a quick note (more later, if time permits)...
>>
>> On 12.03.2013 18:05, holger krekel wrote:
>>> Hi Marc-Andre, all,
>>>
>>>>> - Prepare PYPI implementation to allow a per-project "hosting mode",
>>>>>   effectively enabling or disabling external crawling.  When enabled
>>>>>   nothing changes from the current situation of producing ``rel=download``
>>>>>   and ``rel=homepage`` attributed links on ``simple/`` pages,
>>>>>   causing installers to crawl those sites.
>>>>>   When disabled, the attributions of links will change
>>>>>   to ``rel=newdownload`` and ``rel=newhomepage`` causing installers to
>>>>>   avoid crawling 3rd party sites.  Retaining the meta-information allows
>>>>>   tools to still make use of the semantic information.
>>>>
>>>> Please start using versioned APIs for these things. The
>>>> old style index should still be available under some
>>>> URL, e.g. /simple-v1/ or /v1/simple/ or /1/simple/
>>>
>>> Not sure it is neccessary in this case.  I would think it makes
>>> the implementation harder and it would probably break PEP381 (mirroring
>>> infrastructure) as well.
>>
>> Here's what I meant:
>>
>> We publish the current implementation of the /simple/ index API
>> under a new URL /simple-v1/, so that people that want to use
>> the old API can continue to do so.
> 
> Do you know of anyone who's *actually* going to need/use this
> alternate API.

I think we should establish a versioned API like that for PyPI
to make progress easier. All major web APIs use versioning
for this reason.

> Why can't they just the XML-RPC API, the DOAP API, or
> any other means of obtaining this information?

Those cannot easily be put on the CDN and
would cause an unnecessary strain on the PyPI server.

We could/should probably also make the PKG-INFO meta data file,
plus some other static information such as upload/release dates
(as RSS/Atom file) available on the /simple/ page to make this
easier to use over the CDN.

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