[Catalog-sig] V2 pre-PEP: transitioning to release file hosting on PYPI

[Nick Coghlan]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:23 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> On 13.03.2013 07:28, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:59 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>>> I think we should establish a versioned API like that for PyPI
>>> to make progress easier. All major web APIs use versioning
>>> for this reason.
>>
>> Why set up versioning for something we want to phase out? There will
>> never be a simple-v3, so this is really overengineering the proposed
>> change.
>
> Who says that we want to phase out the /simple/ index ?

I want to render it redundant, because it's a crazy way to distribute
completely inadequate metadata.

Cheers,
Nick.

>
> FWIW, I don't think that two or three small changes to the PyPI
> (see my email to Holger) server warrants calling this over-engineering.
> This is about moving forward in a backwards compatible and future
> proof way.
>
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