On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 10:44 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
Hrm, I'm assuming these require a file listing at
/packages/source/D/ too.
Of course these files should probably be using the simple API and not the packages url directly :/
Indeed. Why not watch a project's simple index instead? It might give false updates if a project is in non-pypi hosting mode and a new description is registered (this could change links in the simple page). But those should be rare i'd think. Watching such distribution-type specific URLs is unreliable, for example when a pypi maintainer change their distribution format (e.g. to wheel which is kind of realistic in the mid-term). So a change will need to happen in suchs cases, anyway. cheers, holger
On Oct 8, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius@pov.lt> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 09:19:37AM -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
I was wondering if anyone was aware of anything that relies on the current structure of package urls, namely:
/packages/source|any|etc/D/Django-1.0.tar.gz?
I would like to change this but before I work up a concrete plan for people to comment on and discuss I'm trying to figure out what, if anything, depends on that current structure.
I've told Launchpad that it can look for new releases at URLs like http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/g/gtimelog/gtimelog-*.tar.gz (for a few projects, not just GTimeLog).
I'm not sure how Launchpad crawls those pages looking for releases; all the documentation I could find in 5 minutes was this blog post: http://blog.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/automatically-import-files-to-launc...
Some Debian packages have debian/watch files using similar URL patterns to watch for new upstream releases showing up on PyPI. This mechanism is documented at https://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch/. Here's python-requests:
$ apt-get source python-requests $ cat requests-1.1.0/debian/watch version=3 http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/requests/requests-(.*)\.tar\.gz
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