[Python-Dev] PyPI front page

[anatoly techtonik]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:35 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> Ben Finney <ben+python <at> benfinney.id.au> writes:
>>> There's a problem with the poll's placement: on the front page of the
>>> PyPI website.
>>
>> Speaking of which, why is it that http://pypi.python.org/pypi and
>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ (note the ending slash) return different contents
>> (the latter being very voluminous)? I always mistake one for the other when
>> entering the URL directly.
>
> As Ian says: setuptools relies on it. It's part of the specification of
> the package index.

Where is that specification? Does it require only
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ to be voluminous or also
http://pypi.python.org/pypi to provide some search interface for
automatic processing? There should be no problem in moving search page
to the root http://pypi.python.org/ if spec is silent about the
latter.

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anatoly t.