[Distutils] URL Structure of Packages URLs

[Donald Stufft]

Hrm, I'm assuming these require a file listing at

/packages/source/D/ too.

Of course these files should probably be using the simple API and
not the packages url directly :/

On Oct 8, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 09:19:37AM -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
>> I was wondering if anyone was aware of anything that relies on
>> the current structure of package urls, namely:
>> 
>>    /packages/source|any|etc/D/Django-1.0.tar.gz?
>> 
>> I would like to change this but before I work up a concrete plan for
>> people to comment on and discuss I'm trying to figure out what, if
>> anything, depends on that current structure.
> 
> I've told Launchpad that it can look for new releases at URLs like
> http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/g/gtimelog/gtimelog-*.tar.gz
> (for a few projects, not just GTimeLog).
> 
> I'm not sure how Launchpad crawls those pages looking for releases; all
> the documentation I could find in 5 minutes was this blog post:
> http://blog.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/automatically-import-files-to-launchpad-using-product-release-finder
> 
> 
> Some Debian packages have debian/watch files using similar URL patterns
> to watch for new upstream releases showing up on PyPI.  This mechanism
> is documented at https://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch/.  Here's
> python-requests:
> 
>    $ apt-get source python-requests
>    $ cat requests-1.1.0/debian/watch
>    version=3
>    http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/requests/requests-(.*)\.tar\.gz
> 
> 
> HTH,
> Marius Gedminas
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