[Distutils] Download Counts Temporarily Disabled

[Donald Stufft]

Hey,

Just an FYI, I've disabled download counts on PyPI for the time being. The
statistics stack is broken and needs engineering effort to fix it back up to
deal with changes to PyPI. It was suggested that hiding the counts would help
prevent user confusion when they see things like "downloaded 0 times" making
people believe that a library has no users, even if it is a significantly
downloaded library.

I'm unlikely to get around to fixing the current stack since, as part of
Warehouse, I'm working on a *new* statistics stack which is much better. The
data collection and storage parts of that stack are already done and I just
need to get querying done (made more difficult by the fact that the new system
queries can take 10+ seconds to complete, but can be queried on any dimension)
and a tool to process the historical data and put it into the new storage
engine.

Anyways, this is just to let folks know that this isn't a permanent loss of
the feature and we won't lose any data.

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Donald Stufft
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