Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> writes: > > On May 15, 2015, at 2:57 PM, Robert Collins <robe...@robertcollins.net> > > wrote: > > > > If folk consider PyPI a sort of historical archive then perhaps we > > could have a feature to select 'supported' versions by the author, > > and allow a query parameter to ask for all the versions. > > > > It’s common for deployments people have to use a requirements.txt file > like ``foo==1.0`` and to just continue to pull from PyPI. Deleting the > old files breaks anyone doing that, so it would require either having > people bundle their deps in their repositories or some way to get at > those old versions. Personally I think that we shouldn’t go deleting > the old versions or encouraging people to do that.
Yes, it's common to consider PyPI as a repository of all versions ever released, and to treat it as an archive whose URLs will continue to make available the historical versions. -- \ “If history and science have taught us anything, it is that | `\ passion and desire are not the same as truth.” —E. O. Wilson, | _o__) _Consilience_, 1998 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
