On Mar 6, 2017, at 3:34 AM, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:

On Mar 6, 2017, at 1:41 AM, Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph@twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

On Mar 5, 2017, at 8:51 AM, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:

Unless there is some sort of massive outcry, I plan to deprecate and ultimately remove the download counts available in the PyPI API, [...]

[...] 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? [...]

It’s not hard at all, it’d just be [...]

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!