[Catalog-sig] PEP 438 implementation on testpypi

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 20.03.2013 21:16, Richard Jones wrote:
> On 20 March 2013 12:31, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>> * Will there be an RPC interface to register URLs with PyPI ?
>>
>> Doing this manually for a large number of files is, well,
>> not ideal :-)
> 
> It's just a HTTP POST and there's plans for a tool.

Is this documented somewhere ? I'd like to add support for it
to our release process.

>> * Adding URLs should do some more tests, I think:
> 
> I thought about it, but didn't see any benefit. It's documented...

Hmm, where ? :-)

>> * I'm missing an option:
>>
>> [ ] Ask tools to scrape only the Download URL.
> 
> This is not part of the planned implementation. The download_url was
> never well-specified, and only allows for one URL, hence the
> implementation we have.

I know it's not in PEP 438 at the moment, but was one of the
nits I mentioned to Holger last week. It's specified in the
meta-data format 1.1 as "A string containing the URL from
which this version of the package can be downloaded.":

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0314/

Having such an option would allow cleaning up the /simple/
index pages a lot, without any changes on the tools side.

It would also be needed for the my proposal of securing
external downloads, where you point to a hashed download
page with the download_url.

>> * Would it be possible to add a link to the corresponding
>> /simple/ index page on the package menu (the one with files,
>> urls, etc.) ?
> 
> I guess this could be added, yes.

Great.

>> * Could you add a link to the PKG-INFO file from
>>   pypi?:action=display_pkginfo to the /simple/ page as
>>   <version>-PKG-INFO (to match the other links) ?
> 
> We could think about it - what's the use-case?

This would allow tools to easily and safely access meta-data
of a package release without downloading, extracting and
running the release files' setup.py.

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