Re: [Distutils] pypi simple page for setuptools returning 11034 links

On 6 October 2014 11:59, Donald Stufft wrote:

On Oct 6, 2014, at 6:39 AM, Joost Molenaar wrote:

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When I run `pip list --outdated` on my raspberry pi, pip seems to hang on setuptools. Investigating a bit, I found that currently, there are 11034 links being returned [1], weighing 1379 KiB. Many of these are links to issue pages on github and bitbucket, also, many of these links are duplicated 20-25 times.

Is this normal/expected? Is it a bug, if so, should I file it somewhere?

It’s normal in that it’s what PyPI has always done and changing it requires going through a process.

It just so happens that I’ve started that process (see PEP 470!) and hopefully this will change in the near future :)

Having said that, I find the PyPI page for setuptools (which is the long_description field, which is where all those links come from) to be annoyingly long and unhelpful. Can I suggest that it would be helpful if setuptools removed some of the ancient history from the PyPI page? Possibly even replace the huge changelog with a link to the changelog file, rather than having it all inline? That would make the PyPI page more readable and usable, and as a fortuitous side-effect, remove all the useless links from the pypi simple page. (You could file a request like that as a bug report on the setuptools tracker). Paul