[Distutils] Removing dependency_links

[Donald Stufft]

Here’s the list of dependency links for the projects that still use them in their latest releases:

https://gist.github.com/dstufft/7185162

A good number of them are either bogus, are pointing directly to PyPI, or are file:// urls that are highly unlikely to exist on anyones computer but the author’s. All in all there are 307 total unique links in this set of packages, and 99 of them are not reachable from my computer (requests.get(…) raises an exception).

So honestly I think this could just go away completely. I don’t see any use for it anymore and apparently neither does most of PyPI.

On Oct 27, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

> More numbers, of the 411 projects who have ever used dependency links, only 311 of them use them in their latest release.
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