[Distutils] PyPI index workaround

[Михаил Голубев]

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 showed outdated installed packages in the settings later.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.

2016-07-13 21:57 GMT+03:00 Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io>:

>
> 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).
> 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
> ).
>
>
> By name and version, do you mean the latest version?
>
> —
> Donald Stufft
>
>
>
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Best regards
Mikhail Golubev
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