[Catalog-sig] [PyPI] Hidden release shown on simple index

Fred Drake fdrake at gmail.com
Fri Jan 23 16:14:01 CET 2009


On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Benji York <benji at benjiyork.com> wrote:
> As an interactive user, I've never understood why the hidden release
> functionality exists; especially automatically hiding old releases.

I can only guess at the original motivations myself, and that's not
really helpful.

The automatic hiding of older releases is definitely a mistake; I've
seen no good come of it, and it's surprising.


  -Fred

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