[Catalog-sig] Recent PyPI changes

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Alexis Metaireau wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 09:52 +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
>> there is now a way to request release information in JSON,
>>>   see http://tinyurl.com/38lefsp 
> That's indeed cool, and useful, but we can't rely on this while
> crawling, too bad this JSON is not replicated on the mirrors.
> 
> It could help a lot, since there is currently no way to request the
> metadatas statically in others way that downloading the distribution
> archives and extracting them. (we also could use xmlrpc, but that's not
> static).
> 
> What's the process I have to follow in order to get this mirrored ? Does
> that sounds good for you ? IOW, whats needed to have this as a
> requirements for mirrors? 

Easiest would be to dump the complete release information
(PKG-INFO) to a text file using the name format <version>_pkg_info
in the simple/ index.

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