[Distutils] PyPI index workaround

[Dmitry Trofimov]

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> 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. This is likely enough to
> pull this issue onto my radar as sooner rather than later issue.


Does that mean that PyPI index page will live for a while until the new API
is implemented?

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

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> On Jul 13, 2016, at 3:12 PM, Михаил Голубев <qsolo825 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm sorry, I should have posted my commentary here, not in the separate
> thread.
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>> 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 startup and showed outdated installed packages in the settings later.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?
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> So, yes, we're interested most in the latest version of a package.
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> 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. This is likely enough to
> pull this issue onto my radar as sooner rather than later issue.
>
>
> —
> Donald Stufft
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