The funny thing about a feature like the manual download link is that no, 99.99% of the time it is not useful, but when you need it, you probably really need it. Probably to debug an issue with pip, or to grab a package pip would not normally download for your platform, or to make sure something has been uploaded correctly. I would not be surprised if the upload feature gets even less use than the manual downloads.
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:57 PM Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
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