[Catalog-sig] PEP 381 (Was: PyPI down?)

[Jannis Leidel]

Am 18.01.2010 um 22:44 schrieb Tarek Ziadé:

> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Jannis Leidel <jannis at leidel.info> wrote:
>> Am 18.01.2010 um 21:47 schrieb Martin v. Löwis:
>> 
>>>> FWIW, I don't see the PEP to be completed. The actual mirror
>>>> protocol, how to handle multiple (unsynchronized) indexes and the API
>>>> design are clearly undecided -- and not discussed.
>>> 
>>> The actual mirror protocol *is* decided, even though it's not explicitly
>>> spelled out in the PEP. It is based entirely on existing API; no new API
>>> on the PyPI side is planned. Basically, you do a lot of HTTP GETs.
>> 
>> If it's decided why isn't it public in the PEP? If you want developers to contribute you need stop deciding in private.
> 
> Come on, that's not what happened. IIRC Jim Fulton and Philip Eby
> worked with Martin to make easy_install / zc.buildout calls on PyPI
> efficient. Then I started the PEP later, but because I wanted to set
> up an "official ring" of mirrors.
> 
> I am the one to blame because I didn't update that part of the PEP yet
> consequently. But the PEP doesn't really address the protocol to be
> used to browse PyPI. It's just informative. This is a de-facto
> standard for years now (you use it everytime you install something
> using pip or easy_install), and it was discussed in the Mailing Lists
> back then when it was created. It didn't land in a PEP back then, like
> other stuff don't.
> 
> So nothing was decided in private.

It certainly feels like it if I get told that the API is decided.

Jannis