[Distutils] Immutable Files on PyPI

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:21:11PM -0700, Chris Jerdonek wrote:
> Would this also affect the ability to update the "readme" information
> for a version on PyPI (i.e. the information displayed on the default
> home page generated by PyPI for the release) once the version has
> already been uploaded to PyPI?
> 
> There are sometimes issues encountered with the display of that
> information that can't easily be checked without doing an actual
> version upload.

restview has a --pypi-strict mode for this use-case #shamelessplug
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/restview

> I haven't recently tried reuploading the metadata for a version,
> mainly because of uncertainty around how PyPI would handle it.

In the past when I needed to fix stupid mistakes in my long_description,
I'd edit it using the web interface.

arius Gedminas
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