Provide copies of our pypi/npmjs published versions

[kelson42]

on download.kiwix.org and download.openzim.org

[kelson42]

@rgaudin For Pypi, what do you think about that?

$ cat versions.py 
#!/usr/bin/env python3

import sys    
import requests
from pkg_resources import parse_version    

def versions(pkg_name):
    url = f'https://pypi.python.org/pypi/{pkg_name}/json'
    releases = requests.get(url).json()['releases']
    return sorted(releases, key=parse_version, reverse=True)    

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print(*versions(sys.argv[1]), sep='\n')
$ for V in `python3 versions.py libzim` ; do pip3 download libzim==$V ; done
Collecting libzim==0.0.2
  File was already downloaded /tmp/test/libzim-0.0.2-cp38-cp38-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
Successfully downloaded libzim
Collecting libzim==0.0.1
  File was already downloaded /tmp/test/libzim-0.0.1.tar.gz
Successfully downloaded libzim
$ ls -la
total 12304
drwxrwxr-x  2 kelson kelson    4096 Jun 16 20:25 .
drwxrwxrwt 73 root   root   4968448 Jun 16 20:26 ..
-rw-rw-r--  1 kelson kelson    1438 Jun 16 20:25 libzim-0.0.1.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--  1 kelson kelson 7614324 Jun 16 20:25 libzim-0.0.2-cp38-cp38-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
-rw-rw-r--  1 kelson kelson     371 Jun 16 20:24 versions.py

[kelson42]

For npmjs.org, https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-package-downloader seems to do the job, but we have quite a mess with dev versions. We need to clean-up

[rgaudin]

Would help to understand the reasoning behind this. I can hardly see the value of this:

• Pypi is a free platform
• It is quite reliable. I must have been bugged by a Pypi downtime 3 times in the last 15+years.
• If Pypi is down, our tools will be affected anyway as we are tied to many dependencies
• If Pypi disapears, we could recreate the packages from the repo.

So it could be useful to archive old version in case Pypi disapears… that sounds too speculative to invest time in seting-up and maintaining this. But I may have missed the use case.

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