let's add a small xml-rpc client in Distutils2, implementing all functions.

See http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPiXmlRpc

see also http://tools.assembla.com/yolk/browser/trunk/yolk/pypi.py

Hello

XML-RPC is a legacy protocol that works against the Web, i.e. it does not respect and benefit from the Web architecture. Why not going the REST way?

Regards

We want to add a PyPI client in Distutils2, and PyPI provides these information via XML-RPC.

PyPI could probably have a REST interface to grab these info as well, but this is another topic/project.

On our side (distutils2), we want to provide a nice set of APIs to get some info PyPI has, and the fact that it's via XML-RPC is an implementation detail: if PyPI switch to something else, this should just impact the internals of the client, and not change our APIs.

Thanks for clarifying. I’m rephrasing the title to minimize the presence of the protocol used as implementation detail.

Regards

Please don't. This is confusing because some commands already interact with PyPI (upload/register).

I don't see the problem in mentioning XML-RPC in the title here. It makes what we need to do crystal clear.

You‘re right, sorry for the noise.

distutils2.index implements an XML-RPC client, a crawler for the so-called simple index and a wrapper for them.  A quick test showed that not all calls listed on the wiki page work now; Alexis, can you give us a status update?

Please, can you be a bit more precise about the missing features ? I'll be glad to cover them.

My bad, I took Tarek’s line about “implementing all functions” literally.  Your client classes don’t have methods with the same exact names and signatures, but what matters is that they provide the functionality.  If you can review the functions listed on the XML-RPC wiki page and confirm they have an equivalent in d2.index, this bug will be closed :)  Bonus points if you create a wiki page explaining how to do operations listed on the XML-RPC page in distutils2.

Yes, all the functions are covered. By the way, I've covered all the functions based on the pypi source code, not on the wiki.

I'll update the wiki page with some examples soon :)