[Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

[Ian Cordasco]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi> wrote:
> 15.08.2016, 22:28, Donald Stufft kirjoitti:
>>>
>>> On Aug 15, 2016, at 3:22 PM, Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> My only thought is how we convey this message to users. I wonder if it
>>> would be beneficial to have Twine cut a release that warns users when
>>> they are uploading something that will be unsupported, then have
>>> Warehouse/PyPI start returning a 415 (Unsupported media type)
>>> approximately a few weeks/month later.
>>
>> I wouldn’t be opposed to something like this, though I’m not entirely sure
>> it’s going to be super useful. I’m not sure if a 415 is the correct
>> response
>> code since these are being sent as binary blobs as far as HTTP is
>> concerned,
>> but the Content-Type of the HTTP request will still be correct, but just
>> the
>> data inside it will be wrong, so I think that’s solidly a 400 error? Not
>> that
>> it’s super important, that’s an implementation detail :)
>
> I think it'll be more important to let the users know exactly *why* their
> uploads failed (and what to do about it) when the change finally takes
> place.

Right. I'm not tied to 415 at all. I just want something firm that
people not using twine can understand. PyPI currently basically only
ever returns 400s and Warehouse has improved things. I'm just hoping
we find the right thing early on (and that may be a 400) but I just
want something obvious.