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by heavyset_go
172 days ago
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Not important at all now, given that it hasn't worked in a decade and I've filed it away as pointless to even consider for a workflow. However, I get a lot of mileage out of package repository search with package managers like pacman, apt, brew, winget, chocolatey and npm. > I think the biggest blocker on CLI search isn’t infrastructure It's why it was shut down, the API was getting hammered and it cost too much to run at a reasonable speed and implement rate limiting or whatever. |
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Sort of: the original search API used a POST and was structured with XML-RPC. PyPI’s operators went to great efforts to scale it, but that wasn’t a great starting point. A search API designed around caching (like the one used on PyPI’s web UI) wouldn’t have those problems.