On 9 May 2014 13:06, Donald Stufft donald@stufft.io wrote:
I think it's important to point out that one of the
driving factors that caused
me to finally push for changes and what lead to PEP438 being created was that
Mercurial's external hosted was being extremely flaky. I can't remember the
exact details but I want to say that over the span of a week or two I was
getting massive numbers of users complaining that pip install Mercurial
was suddenly failing. This isn't to knock on the Mercurial folks or anything
but to simply point out that these problems aren't things that just happen to
(under|un)maintained software nor are they hypothetical. This PEP was born of
the frustration that was being relayed to me by end users of PyPI/pip.
So now "pip install Mercurial" always fails? And adding a flag allows it to work as well as before, but no better? How did that fix the issue? Seriously - I'm missing something here.
No, This caused Mercurial to upload their packages to PyPI.
You're claiming that Mercurial moved to hosting on PyPI solely because users suddenly needed to add a flag to install from pip? As opposed to because PyPI gave them a more reliable hosting platform, for example? OK. I certainly can't give any evidence to dispute that claim, although I'm surprised.
Paul