[Distutils] ANNOUNCE: Sunsetting of uploading to the legacy PyPI/TestPyPI

[Randy Syring]

For what it's worth, for the projects that are almost ready to 
recommend, but not quite there (like Flit per the discussion on issue 
336), would it hurt to have an "provisional" area to the key projects 
list that makes people aware of the projects without "blessing" them as 
Key Projects.  The whole point of that section of the guide is to raise 
awareness, yes?  Well if something like Flit is almost ready, but 
pending for a small reason or two, why not publish it anyway with some 
kind of "provision" label or something and an explanation of why the 
project is important, but not quite yet ready?

"Provisional" may not be the best term, couldn't think of a better term 
at the moment.

Just my $0.02.

*Randy Syring*
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and forfeit his soul?" (Mark 8:36 ESV)/

On 06/24/2017 09:15 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 24 June 2017 at 18:56, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:
>> For reference, I switched the default upload server for flit in version
>> 0.11.
> Oh, I'd also missed that 0.11 published sdists now.
>
> Given that, I think we should start recommending flit for new pure
> Python projects (the lack of sdists was the only thing previously
> making me hesitant about that), and then add it to the PyPI upload
> migration list as well.
>
> It's also missing an entry in the Key Projects list:
> https://packaging.python.org/key_projects/
>
> I've filed an issue to discuss that here:
> https://github.com/pypa/python-packaging-user-guide/issues/336
>
> We should probably add enscons to the Key Projects list as well, since
> that allows folks the option of using a full pip-installable C/C++
> build system as an alternative to setuptools/distutils, so I also
> filed an issue to discuss that:
> https://github.com/pypa/python-packaging-user-guide/issues/337
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>

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