[Distutils] [Catalog-sig] Prototype setuptools-specific PyPI index.

[Jim Fulton]

On Jul 21, 2007, at 7:20 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
...
> Jim isn't providing the top-level index, and thus doesn't provide  
> punctuation or case corrections.

Yup

> The "version pages" convention is only used by setuptools to  
> discover additional index pages for crawling, anyway, and his whole  
> design is intended to prevent crawling.

That's a secondary benefit. The main goal is to avoid the expense of  
that page for packages that aren't in PyPI, as some packages I use  
aren't.

Jim

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