[Distutils] Reviving PEP 470 - Removing External Hosting support on PyPI

[Wichert Akkerman]

On 31 Aug 2015, at 16:31, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> Top Externally Hosted Projects by Requests
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> This is determined by looking at the number of requests the
> ``/simple/<project>/`` page had gotten in a single day. The total number of
> requests during that day was 10,623,831.
> 
> ============================== ========
> Project                        Requests
> ============================== ========
> PIL                            63869
> Pygame                         2681
> mysql-connector-python         1562
> pyodbc                         724
> elementtree                    635
> salesforce-python-toolkit      316
> wxPython                       295
> PyXML                          251
> RBTools                        235
> python-graph-core              123
> cElementTree                   121
> ============================== ========

Looking very briefly at that list all of those are obsolete/replaced and have not seen a release in years, or they are now hosted in PyPI.

Wichert.