> Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
> It looks like easy_install is still actually working at the moment; I 
> guess 
> that means you kept the list working if the user-agent is 
> easy_install.  Thank you, and sorry for jumping to conclusions.  I took 
> "This has been removed" to mean that it had been, well, removed.  :)

No, I'm not sure why it didn't break - the "/" URL behaviour *had* changed to return the home page. I have reinstated the old behaviour but now we're running in mod_python we require an apache restart -- which requires a roto-rooter, so responsiveness to changes like this has just taken a significant nose-dive.


> I will mention again, though, that it *can* be removed entirely, without 
> needing any in-the-field upgrades, if project name matches in URLs can 
> be made case-insensitive and canonical via safe_name:

And I will mention again that I'm not willing to just whack this code into the package index without some thought to to ramifications given that distutils has no such name mangling or limitation. We will have potential (however remote) of name collision and we'll have to deal with that somehow.


      Richard