[Distutils] Warehouse - Simple API

[PJ Eby]

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> I've recently deployed the current Warehouse code. So far the
> simple API has been implemented and it would be great if
> people could point their installers to it and report back to me
> if they run into any problems.
>
> The current PyPI simple api is not documented at all so I've had
> to reverse engineer it going from what I know, pip, etc. Ideally
> if i've missed anything it will be found out with testing from y'all.

FYI, compare:

https://preview-pypi.python.org/simple/setuptools/

and:

https://pypi.python.org/simple/setuptools/

The former is missing the #egg URLs, which are required to install SVN versions.

In general, extracted URLs don't seem to be working on the preview site.