On Fri, 9 May 2014 13:47:49 +0100 Paul Moore p.f.moore@gmail.com wrote:
On 9 May 2014 13:25, Donald Stufft donald@stufft.io wrote:
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.
I don’t know that for a fact but If my memory is correct that’s a reasonable assumption based on the timeline.
As Stefan pointed out, improved PyPI infrastructure such as the CDN seems like a much more likely reason for Mercurial to have switched.
Here is the only reference I could find: http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2013-July/052129.html
Regards
Antoine.