Re: A 90% Solution

PJ Eby <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:28:54 -0400

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On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 5:50 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not hard to do: we'd just need to keep the old index in place
> using a different URL, e.g. /simple-v1/.

That's not necessary: the XML-RPC API lets you query those URLs
directly.  They're part of the metadata standard, after all...  which
means you can *also* access them by downloading the DOAP records,
browsing the PyPI pages directly, etc.

There are plenty of ways to get that data, no point adding another one.