[Distutils] PEP 438 - Transition Phase 1
Tres Seaver
tseaver at palladion.com
Sun May 19 16:46:49 CEST 2013
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On 05/18/2013 08:50 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:
> Phase 1 of PEP 438 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0438/) has
> begun.
>
> Deployed to production PyPI is: - New packages default to
> pypi-explicit - Old packages default to pypi-scrape-crawl - Package
> Maintainers can select which hosting mode to use - Package Maintainers
> can control what urls show up on their /simple/ index
>
> What's still happening:
>
> - All existing packages will be processed to determine if they host
> files on PyPI, if they host files externally but link directly, or if
> they Host files externally and require scraping the home or download
> url pages. - Taking the data obtained from processing email users to
> tell them if their package can be moved to a more restrictive download
> option (e.g. all their versions are installable directly from PyPI, or
> from a direct link from PyPI). - A Month after that actually moving
> them to their detected new hosting mode (if possible on a per project
> basis).
I would be glad to update all my packages to explicit mode, but would
prefer to be able to do that in a single batch (clicking through to 250
or so to set it will be tedious). It would be good to automate removing
all external URLs previously sniffed from the long-description, too.
Tres.
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