Need API to get list of all packages with current version

[ewdurbin]

Originally reported by: Tom Bechtold (Bitbucket: toabctl, GitHub: toabctl)

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There is currently no API (at I don't know one) to get a list with all available packages and the latest version of the package.
I want to improve a software to track the status (outdated, uptodate) of python packages (in this case rpm packages) . This is currently only possible if I get for every package the version which doesn't scale if I have a lot of packages I want to check. The list with packages could also be static (and generated once a day or so). This is i.e. done for cpan (http://www.cpan.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz).

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi/issue/203

[di]

Captured in pypi/warehouse#347.