On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Dima Tisnek <dim...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Is anyone working on pruning old packages from pypi? > > I found something last updated in 2014, which, looking at the source > appears half-done. > Github link doesn't work any longer, no description, etc. > > I managed to find author's email address out of band, and he responded > that he can't remember the password, yada yada. > > I wonder if some basic automation is possible here -- check if url's > are reachable and if existing package satisfies basic requirements, > failing that mark it as "possibly out of date"
I'm curious why you view this as a problem that needs to be solved? - Do you want to take over the name yourself? - Are you afraid someone will stumble on this package and use it? Something else? Jim -- Jim Fulton http://jimfulton.info _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
