Another thing. Is the search index on pypi.python.org no longer being updated? Searching for mypy-lang still takes you to mypy-lang 0.2.0, even though 0.3.1 has been released many weeks ago. I just updated the typing package and searching for that still shows the old versions.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > Oh well. I wonder if offering money would change the situation. > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Richard Jones <rich...@python.org> wrote: > >> Hi Guido, >> >> Because this sort of thing has come up a lot in the past, and because >> I've copped trouble for mishandling it in the past, I took the trouble of >> writing up a formal description of how I handle these sorts of issues: >> >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1elum7ENjQb0dLB4ATfYNtnXYVLUzsKacc0VWnHHJb2A/edit?usp=sharing >> >> I believe Donald follows the same, or a very similar procedure. >> >> In short, all that can be done has been done, from my perspective. >> Someone has published their module, and regardless of any opinion of it, or >> desire to also use that name, I have to respect that they published first. >> In the absence of explicit consent from them to do anything, my hands are >> tied. I've taken unilateral action in the past to my personal detriment. >> >> Of course, once I'm no longer a PyPI admin (I look forward to the day so >> very much) someone else will have to make these decisions. >> >> >> Richard >> >> >> On 16 April 2016 at 09:29, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >> >>> Brett suggested I ask the kind folks here. >>> >>> As you may or may not know, there's an old unmaintained "mypy" package >>> on PyPI that attracts a fair amount of downloads from people trying to >>> download mypy the type checker. We then get bug reports and have to explain >>> in our tracker that they have to use "pip install mypy-lang" instead. >>> >>> Query: >>> https://github.com/python/mypy/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue++dbutils+ >>> >>> That mypy package was last updated in 2011, and it's a quite forgettable >>> combination of copied open-source packages and a little bit of glue code >>> presumably written by the package author. Both Donald and myself have >>> approached the owner (zsp...@gmail.com) but not received any response. >>> Is there a "higher authority" to whom we can appeal this, or are we just >>> stuck with this situation? >>> >>> As Brett wrote part of the problem, though, is the mypy project has 2244 >>> downloads in the last month which shows it's being used and we don't want >>> to end up in an npm/left_pad situation. (But how many of those downloads >>> are misguided attempts to install mypy-lang?) >>> >>> One possibility, if people aren't happy with me or Jukka taking over >>> owhership of the old mypy package, would be for someone (not me or Jukka) >>> to take ownership of that package just so they can update the PyPI home >>> page for that package with a prominent note telling people looking for >>> Jukka's type checker to use mypy-lang instead. >>> >>> -- >>> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >>> >>> >> > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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