We're revamping the web interface to match the new pdo style. We've also cleaned a bit of the interface up.


Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
> 1. It assumes that baseURL/projectname will get to the current version 
> of projectname, or a page with a list of projectname's active versions
> 
> 2. It assumes that links within PyPI of the form 
> baseURL/something1/something2 are links to version 'something2' of a 
> project named 'something1'
> 
> 4. It assumes that if baseURL/projectname returns a page containing the 
> text "Index of Packages</title>", it is a list of links of the form 
> described in #2.
>
> 5. It looks for and follows the first links following the strings 
> "<th>Home Page" and "<th>Download URL" in a project page.

These remain unchanged.


> 3. It assumes that going to baseURL directly will result in a page with 
> links to all available packages in the form described in #2.

This has been removed as it seems completely unnecessary (a flat listing of all 1400+ packages, that is). The XML-RPC interface provides the functionality you require here.


> Also note that even with an XML-RPC interface, easy_install will *still* 
> need to read an HTML page to gather links, because it's valid for people 
> to provide links in their long_description using reStructuredText.  It's 
> just that assumptions 1, 3, and 4 (and maybe 5) would not be necessary.

You couldn't just call release_data and parse URLs out of the description text with a simple re search?


> Hm.  I just tried to make multiple versions of PEAK active, and it seems 
> like you can't get the page that lists multiple versions any more.  No 
> wonder some people have been having problems downloading older versions 
> of certain packages.  :(

Whoopsie. This has been fixed. Not sure when it was changed or why.


> What do you mean?  You can run "easy_install -u setuptools" to upgrade 
> to the latest release at any time.  But it doesn't go out looking for 
> updates on its own.

Automatically updating existing users to use the xml-rpc would be nice, I suppose.


     Richard