The “Simple Repository API” that was defined in PEP 503 (and was in use much longer than that) has served us reasonably well for a very long time. However, the reliance on using HTML as the data exchange mechanism has several shortcomings.| Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)
This PEP proposes adding an anchor tag to expose the METADATA file from distributions in the PEP 503 “simple” repository API. A data-dist-info-metadata attribute is introduced to indicate that the file from a given distribution can be independently fetc...| Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)