> Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
> Why not?  ;)

That was actually what I was afraid the reasoning was ;)

I guess I just go all wobbly in the knees at the thought of having to maintain a "screen scraping" interface.

Funnily enough, Johannes Gisjbers, Andrew Dalke and I were talking about this very issue last night. I proposed that we detect the user-agent of the setuptools client, and in response send back really minimalist HTML (no surrounding page template). Probably overkill, but this may have been after we'd had beer :) 

Could you provide a clear list of all the specific changes you wish for us to make at the Sprint?

> Nonetheless, there are various aspects of easy_install's behavior and 
> performance that could be significantly improved by using XML-RPC, so I 
> definitely want it to do that in 0.7.  I'm just wary of removing the 
> existing behavior until it's clear that it's unnecessary for it to.

Oh - another thing that occurred to me -- does setuptools auto update itself?


     Richard