On 31 July 2013 05:15, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote: [...] +1. This sounds like a good plan I do not want a packaging index server to be specified by implementation,
so as the legacy API is ported over to Warehouse a specification will be drafted. This spec will represent the "promise" that PyPI makes about the API it presents to be consumed by machines. During the migration any behavior not codified inside of the spec is considered implementation defined behavior and backwards compatibility for that behavior will not be promised.
And this is something I wholeheartedly support - having a properly specified PyPI API will not only help protect against future changes, it will also ensure that people writing their own index servers have a well-defined spec to work to. Paul