On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > On September 1, 2015 at 12:15:56 AM, Nick Coghlan (ncogh...@gmail.com) wrote: >> On 1 September 2015 at 05:53, Donald Stufft wrote: >> > The top packages look a bit different than it did 10 months ago, >> > surprisingly >> > to me PIL has severely dropped off from where it had ~63k 10 months ago >> > and it >> > now has 5.5k, however pygame has risen from 2.6k 10 months ago to ~32k. >> >> I can provide plausible explanations for both of those: >> >> * Pillow adoption progressively displacing PIL usage >> * Pygame Zero lowering barriers to entry for PyGame usage in education >> >> > > Seems reasonable, Pygame doesn’t seem to have had a release since 2009. This > is a common theme amongst most of the projects still using external hosting, > they were added at a time that PyPI either didn’t have file uploading or it’s > file uploading was unreliable and it made more sense to host externally. I > think that also explains why almost none of them switched away from the > unverifiable method to the verifiable method and why the amount of traffic > per project drops sharply after the first handful, because it’s largely older > projects that may or may not even actually work anymore. > > In the case of Pygame, I see that the pygame zero instructions say to install > from https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame. I don’t know of that’s an official > pygame repository or if someone forked it or what, but if that’s owned by the > same people, maybe we can get them to make a release to PyPI.
Looking at the download url that PyPI points to: http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml then I get the impression that this page was designed to be read by humans only, and if pip/easy_install ever do anything useful with it then it's by pure luck only. The whole page is about how you should go about choosing and obtaining the correct platform-specific binary package. (Also, what does it meant that https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pygame is 404?) -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- http://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
