[Distutils] PyPI index workaround

[Donald Stufft]

> On Jul 13, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Dmitry Trofimov <dmitry.trofimov at jetbrains.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> to have information about available packages, PyCharm IDE currently parses
> the PyPI index page (https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=index <https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=index>).
> As it is going to be deprecated soon, we are looking for a workaround.
> 
> What we need is, making one request, to get the name and the version of all PyPI packages. Then we cache this information in the IDE (https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/7e16c042a19767d5f548c84f88cc5edd5f9d1721/python/src/com/jetbrains/python/packaging/PyPIPackageUtil.java <https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/7e16c042a19767d5f548c84f88cc5edd5f9d1721/python/src/com/jetbrains/python/packaging/PyPIPackageUtil.java>).

By name and version, do you mean the latest version?

—
Donald Stufft



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