[Catalog-sig] Full package list

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 07:21 PM 4/9/2007 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>Jeremy Kloth schrieb:
> > On Monday 09 April 2007 6:36:53 am Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> >> With the browse pages hidden from spiders, the search engines
> >> cannot find out the complete list of packages anymore (AFAICT).
> >>
> >> Would it be useful to have a page with just the names of all
> >> packages, linking to pypi/<package>? It could go into the
> >> navigation bar, below "List trove classifiers".
> >
> > Do you mean a page like: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi?:action=index
>
>Oops, yes.

It is also available at http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/ - which is where 
EasyInstall looks for it.

(EasyInstall never uses query strings to access the package index, so that 
users can create and use alternative package indexes without needing any 
dynamic technologies; everything easy_install needs can be done with Apache 
directory indexes and perhaps some index.html files.)