On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Holger Krekel wrote: > Hi Richard, hi all, > > While reading the pypi main and other sources i wondered how we could switch > off serving links from description_html, at least on a per-project basis. > It's really annoying that when you start to add some links to a > long_description that installation of your package will thus slow down around > the world. Even if you remove the links from the next release. > > How could we arrange for a maintainer to communicate to the pypi-server that > a particular project should not ever serve links from description_html (and > maybe not even from the homepage while we are at it)? > > Preferably it should be something that can be done from existing setup.py > files, like adding a special trove-classifier or keyword. But a little > custom tool or a web page form would be ok as well. > > If maintainers could easily switch off these extra links, then this means > less stress for the pypi server and a global considerable speedup of > installing python packages as often most of the pip/easy_install time is > spent with checking out these URLs. > > best, > holger +1 >
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