pip search <pkg> follows PyPI relevance ordering

[zachvalenta]

What's the problem this feature will solve?

• more relevant search results
• current search doesn't return main package from query or few results from PyPI search

Describe the solution you'd like

current

$ pip3 search ansible  
ansible-toolkit (1.3.2)            - The missing Ansible tools
ansible-alicloud (1.11.0)          - Ansible provider for Alicloud.
ansible-toolset (0.7.0)            - Useful Ansible toolset

results ordered following PyPI relevance ranking https://pypi.org/search/?q=ansible

$ pip3 search ansible
ansible (2.8.6)                    - Radically simple IT automation system
ansible-bundle (0.7.0)             - Manage ansible role and modules versioned dependencies.
ansible-docgenerator (0.1.0)       - Simple tool for generating ansible role documentation

[chrahunt]

Hi @zachvalenta. There are some links over in #6842 (comment) that give context - different implementations are used between the PyPI website search and the search API used by pip. I would file an issue over on pypa/warehouse (the project behind PyPI) suggesting that the XMLRPC search API return the same results as the website. That sounds reasonable to me, but there's probably some things I'm not considering (like any personalization, for example).

I hope that helps! Since it doesn't look like there's anything we can do in pip here I will close this, but please drop a link to any related issues or discussions.