<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 6, 2017, at 3:34 AM, Donald Stufft <<a href="mailto:donald@stufft.io" class="">donald@stufft.io</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 6, 2017, at 1:41 AM, Glyph Lefkowitz <<a href="mailto:glyph@twistedmatrix.com" class="">glyph@twistedmatrix.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 5, 2017, at 8:51 AM, Donald Stufft <<a href="mailto:donald@stufft.io" class="">donald@stufft.io</a>> wrote:</div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Unless there is some sort of massive outcry, I plan to deprecate and ultimately remove the download counts available in the PyPI API, [...]</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">[...] But, as someone who's been vaguely annoyed that `vanity` doesn't work for a while, I wonder: shouldn't it be easy for someone familiar with both systems to simply implement the existing "download count" API as a legacy / compatibility wrapper around BigQuery? [...]</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">It’s not hard at all, it’d just be [...]</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Thanks for that super detailed and exhaustive explanation, I have a much better handle on the issues involved now. Sorry if you'd written it before and I'd missed it - I can now very clearly see why you want to get rid of it!</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-glyph</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>