[Catalog-sig] PEP 438 implementation on testpypi

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 20.03.2013 23:01, Richard Jones wrote:
> On 20 March 2013 14:56, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>> Could you change "The URL must end with the MD5 hash of the file
>> contents" to "The URL must include the MD5 hash of the file contents" ?
>>
>> (See my original test report for the reason :-))
> 
> Hm. The wording was passed by one of the pip maintainers so I'll defer
> to them on what the URL format should be.

The format should be defined in the PEP 438. If we adopt the
hash tag extensions, then the URL fragment will just start with
the md5= part and not necessarily also end with it.

pip and easy_install will then have to implement the
extension mechanism; and package authors will have to
decide whether or not they want to stay compatible to
versions of those tools that don't have these implemented.

I was just asking for the text on the page to be in line with
what PyPI actually checks.

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