On 10/06/2014 01:17 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 6 October 2014 11:59, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Oct 6, 2014, at 6:39 AM, Joost Molenaar <[email protected]> wrote: >>> When I run `pip list --outdated` on my raspberry pi, pip seems to hang on >>> setuptools. Investigating a bit, I found that currently, there are 11034 >>> links being >>> returned [1], weighing 1379 KiB. Many of these are links to issue pages on >>> github and >>> bitbucket, also, many of these links are duplicated 20-25 times. >>> >>> Is this normal/expected? Is it a bug, if so, should I file it somewhere? >> >> It’s normal in that it’s what PyPI has always done and changing it requires >> going through a process. >> >> It just so happens that I’ve started that process (see PEP 470!) and >> hopefully this will change in the near future :) > > Having said that, I find the PyPI page for setuptools (which is the > long_description field, which is where all those links come from) to > be annoyingly long and unhelpful. > > Can I suggest that it would be helpful if setuptools removed some of > the ancient history from the PyPI page? Possibly even replace the huge > changelog with a link to the changelog file, rather than having it all > inline? That would make the PyPI page more readable and usable, and as > a fortuitous side-effect, remove all the useless links from the pypi > simple page.
Indeed. The table of contents entries alone for the changelog takes up four screen pages. Georg _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
