Re: [Python-Dev] PyPI front page

At 08:33 PM 11/12/2009 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Antoine Pitrou <<mailto:solipsis@pitrou.net>solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote: Ben Finney <ben+python <at> <http://benfinney.id.au>benfinney.id.au> writes:
There's a problem with the poll's placement: on the front page of the PyPI website.
Speaking of which, why is it that <http://pypi.python.org/pypi>http://pypi.python.org/pypi and <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/>http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ (note the ending slash) return different contents (the latter being very voluminous)? I always mistake one for the other when entering the URL directly.
easy_install replied on the behavior of /pypi/ (it uses the long list to do case-insensitive searches). Someone changed it, easy_install broke, and a compromise was to keep /pypi/ the way it was (but not /pypi).
Probably this could be removed, as the /simple/ index is already case-insensitive, so easy_install shouldn't have to hit /pypi/ at all.
This was changed over a year ago; easy_install *does* use /simple by default. I would guess enough people are upgraded by now that PyPI need no longer continue to support it.
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