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Temporary Page for Package Index "API"

This is a temporary page that documents the package index "API" used by EasyInstall. This documentation will be folded into the main EasyInstall page when setuptools 0.6b4 is released.

Package Index "API"

Custom package indexes (and PyPI) must follow the following rules for EasyInstall to be able to look up and download packages:

  1. Except where stated otherwise, "pages" are HTML or XHTML, and "links" refer to href attributes.

  2. Individual project version pages' URLs must be of the form base/projectname/version, where base is the package index's base URL.

  3. Omitting the /version part of a project page's URL (but keeping the trailing /) should result in a page that is either:

    1. The single active version of that project, as though the version had been explicitly included, OR
    2. A page with links to all of the active version pages for that project.
  4. Individual project version pages should contain direct links to downloadable distributions where possible. It is explicitly permitted for a project's "long_description" to include URLs, and these should be formatted as HTML links by the package index, as EasyInstall does no special processing to identify what parts of a page are index-specific and which are part of the project's supplied description.

  5. Where available, MD5 information should be added to download URLs by appending a fragment identifier of the form #md5=..., where ... is the 32-character hex MD5 digest. EasyInstall will verify that the downloaded file's MD5 digest matches the given value.

  6. Individual project version pages should identify any "homepage" or "download" URLs using rel="homepage" and rel="download" attributes on the HTML elements linking to those URLs. Use of these attributes will cause EasyInstall to always follow the provided links, unless it can be determined by inspection that they are downloadable distributions. If the links are not to downloadable distributions, they are retrieved, and if they are HTML, they are scanned for download links. They are not scanned for additional "homepage" or "download" links, as these are only processed for pages that are part of a package index site.

  7. The root URL of the index, if retrieved with a trailing /, must result in a page containing links to all projects' active version pages.

    (Note: This requirement is a workaround for the absence of case-insensitive safe_name() matching of project names in URL paths. If project names are matched in this fashion (e.g. via the PyPI server, mod_rewrite, or a similar mechanism), then it is not necessary to include this all-packages listing page.)

  8. If a package index is accessed via a file:// URL, then EasyInstall will automatically use index.html files, if present, when trying to read a directory with a trailing / on the URL.

Backward Compatibility

Package indexes that wish to support setuptools versions prior to 0.6b4 should also follow these rules:

  • Homepage and download links must be preceded with "<th>Home Page" or "<th>Download URL", in addition to (or instead of) the rel="" attributes on the actual links. These marker strings do not need to be visible, or uncommented, however! For example, the following is a valid homepage link that will work with any version of setuptools:

    <li>
     <strong>Home Page:</strong>
     <!-- <th>Home Page -->
     <a rel="homepage" href="http://sqlobject.org">http://sqlobject.org</a>
    </li>
    

    Even though the marker string is in an HTML comment, older versions of EasyInstall will still "see" it and know that the link that follows is the project's home page URL.

  • The pages described by paragraph 3(b) of the preceding section must contain the string "Index of Packages</title>" somewhere in their text. This can be inside of an HTML comment, if desired, and it can be anywhere in the page. (Note: this string MUST NOT appear on normal project pages, as described in paragraphs 2 and 3(a)!)

In addition, for compatibility with PyPI versions that do not use #md5= fragment IDs, EasyInstall uses the following regular expression to match PyPI's displayed MD5 info (broken onto two lines for readability):

<a href="([^"#]+)">([^<]+)</a>\n\s+\(<a href="[^?]+\?:action=show_md5
&amp;digest=([0-9a-f]{32})">md5</a>\)

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