[Distutils] `setup.py register` can't create PyPI account.

[Tarek Ziadé]

2010/7/13 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>:
>> Why is that ? This used to work, IIRC. This is a regression on PyPI
>> side (checkbox added afaik), and needs  to be fixed.
>
> How would you propose to fix this?

A quick hack is to look at the user agent (urllib2) and remove your
checkbox in this case.
A cleaner step would be to remove this and create a new UI page to
register the users
from within the web version, and change the human links in your web app.

>> We could think about deprecating it maybe, but we cannot break all
>> existing python versions with a change in the PyPI UI like that...
>
> This happened several months ago, and nobody complained so far. So
> I don't consider it a serious problem.

We have one complaint now, and I am complaining too. You cannot break
existing software then say you don't consider this a "serious" problem
because it's not widely used.

Are you really expecting me to remove silently this feature from all
python versions documentation and tell people it's not a serious
problem ?


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