pypi simple page for setuptools returning 11034 links
Hi all, When I run `pip list --outdated` on my raspberry pi, pip seems to hang on setuptools.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? Regards, Joost Molenaar [1] https://pypi.python.org/simple/setuptools/
On Oct 6, 2014, at 6:39 AM, Joost Molenaar <j.j.molenaar@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
When I run `pip list --outdated` on my raspberry pi, pip seems to hang on setuptools.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?
Regards,
Joost Molenaar
[1] https://pypi.python.org/simple/setuptools/ <https://pypi.python.org/simple/setuptools/>
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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 :) --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
On 6 October 2014 11:59, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
On Oct 6, 2014, at 6:39 AM, Joost Molenaar <j.j.molenaar@gmail.com> wrote:
When I run `pip list --outdated` on my raspberry pi, pip seems to hang on setuptools.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
On 10/06/2014 01:17 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
On 6 October 2014 11:59, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
On Oct 6, 2014, at 6:39 AM, Joost Molenaar <j.j.molenaar@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Indeed. The table of contents entries alone for the changelog takes up four screen pages. Georg
On 6 October 2014 13:00, Georg Brandl <g.brandl@gmx.net> wrote:
ndeed. The table of contents entries alone for the changelog takes up four screen pages.
https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/265/pypi-page-and-simple-index-f...
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