Discuss: Support Core Metadata Mirroring

[cooperlees]

PEP 658 specifies serving core package metadata from an index. Lets look at best ways to potentially mirror this if there is a sane way.

For more info: https://peps.python.org/pep-0658/

Ideas

• Does bandersnatch have a config option to pull down the files to be statically served
• Should this be left to the mirror service to pull the files out of the downloaded binaries and cached?

Other ideas?

[pombredanne]

@cooperlees Hi :)

Does bandersnatch have a config option to pull down the files to be statically served
Should this be left to the mirror service to pull the files out of the downloaded binaries and cached?

I could see a config named metadata similar to the release-files and json and essentially have the same behaviour as json.

An alternative is to deprecate the json config and have a new json-and-metadata config that would pull both or none and could have this documentation:

The mirror json-and-metadata setting is a boolean (true/false) setting that indicates that the json packaging metadata and the core metadata (pep-0658) should be mirrored in addition to the packages.