[Distutils] PyPI index workaround

[Donald Stufft]

> On Jul 13, 2016, at 3:12 PM, Михаил Голубев <qsolo825 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm sorry, I should have posted my commentary here, not in the separate thread.
>  
> We have some issues with suggested "/simple" endpoint. Despite the need to scrap the web page, old endpoint allowed us to quickly find latest versions of the packages hosted on PyPI. We did a single request on IDE startup and showed outdated installed packages in the settings later. Index "/simple" however contains only package names and links to the dedicated pages with their artifacts (not for each of them, though). It means that now we have to make tons of individual requests to find the latest published version for each installed package. Isn't it going to load the service even worse?
> 
> So, yes, we're interested most in the latest version of a package. 
> 


Ok, we don’t currently have an API like that (largely because nobody has come up with a use case that was pressing enough to need to devote resources to it). It was requested though, and is being tracked by https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/347 <https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/347>. This is likely enough to pull this issue onto my radar as sooner rather than later issue.


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Donald Stufft



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