<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:12 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mal@egenix.com">mal@egenix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
When designing such interfaces, please consider that the PyPI information<br>
is mostly static. If there's information missing, it should be easy to add<br>
it to e.g. a new info file placed into the package's "simple" directory<br>
that package tools could pick up in REST style.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, it can solve some problems pointed out here, and I'll consider that. *but* it's not a solution to all problems, and RPC calls will be of a great help in some cases, as it could be very long to fetch all metadata, process it on the client side and return information about eg. a search by other fields than name (give me all distributions from this author).</div>
<div><br></div><div>But, definitively, yes, I'll consider that.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks !</div></div>-- <br>Alexis<br>