On 26 August 2016 at 02:43, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > Aside: If pip is considered the only user of PyPI, I do wonder, > why we bother having a user readable download index at all ;-)
I see the smiley, but this actually has a real answer :) The manual download links aren't particularly useful (that's why Warehouse moves them to a subpage and encourages the use of "pip install" instead), but the user readable pages themselves are relevant to folks searching for dependencies that might solve their problems (whether using PyPI's native search, or a general internet search engine). And once you have a project information page, not having any manual download links *at all* would be sufficiently strange that their absence could reasonably be expected to puzzle people, so it makes sense to just provide them, rather than attempting to explain why they're not there. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
