On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:22 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > Am 12.07.2010 14:43, schrieb Fred Drake: >> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Takayuki Shimizukawa >> <shimizuk...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> However, the usage of the register command is written on a >>> manual (http://docs.python.org/distutils/packageindex.html), and >>> many people will meet with the same problem by using the method. >> >> I guess it's been a long time since I've seen that menu! >> >> This does indicate a bug, which should be fixed. Part of the fix >> should include a test for PyPI that an account can be created using >> the interface invoked by distutils. > > That is not feasible. It might be necessary to break distutils again, > for whatever reason. So I'd rather suggest to remove the "register user" > functionality from distutils, and direct users to web signup.r
Why is that ? This used to work, IIRC. This is a regression on PyPI side (checkbox added afaik), and needs to be fixed. We could think about deprecating it maybe, but we cannot break all existing python versions with a change in the PyPI UI like that... Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
