[Distutils] Deprecating download counts in API?

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

> On Mar 6, 2017, at 3:34 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
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>> On Mar 6, 2017, at 1:41 AM, Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com <mailto:glyph at twistedmatrix.com>> wrote:
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>>> On Mar 5, 2017, at 8:51 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io <mailto:donald at stufft.io>> wrote:
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>>> Unless there is some sort of massive outcry, I plan to deprecate and ultimately remove the download counts available in the PyPI API, [...]
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>> [...] But, as someone who's been vaguely annoyed that `vanity` doesn't work for a while, I wonder: shouldn't it be easy for someone familiar with both systems to simply implement the existing "download count" API as a legacy / compatibility wrapper around BigQuery? [...]
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> It’s not hard at all, it’d just be [...]

Thanks for that super detailed and exhaustive explanation, I have a much better handle on the issues involved now.  Sorry if you'd written it before and I'd missed it - I can now very clearly see why you want to get rid of it!

-glyph

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