July 23, 2007
8:16 p.m.
Perhaps it /could/ be, but isn't currently. For example, updating one piece of software I have with almost 150 dependencies takes 45 seconds with ppix, 4:45 without. I plan to do similar timings with the "simple" PyPI interface when I get a chance and report the results here.
I was, of course, talking about the simple interface. The full index will certainly take much more time because setuptools has to request more pages, and each page contains a lot of unnecessary data. Regards, Martin