[Catalog-sig] [Proposal] Registered packages must provide the source code distribution on PyPI

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Am 18.06.2010 18:47, schrieb Mark Ramm:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:41 PM, "Martin v. Löwis"<martin at v.loewis.de>  wrote:
>>> It does?  I thought PyPI kept everything around (but hidden) unless the
>>> author went in and manually deleted old stuff.  You just need to go to a
>>> deep link, e.g., http://pypi.python.org/pypi/SomePackage/0.1
>>
>> Sure, but owners *do* manually delete old stuff.
>
> Am I wrong in remembering that old packages get dropped from the
> simple index?

You are indeed misremembering. They used to, but don't, any longer, on 
user request.

Regards,
Martin