I would prefer we never delete packages once we upload them to PyPI, unless there are security issues with them. As Sean demonstrated, someone somewhere is going to be using them, and deleting packages will inevitably break something. Matti
On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 7:44 PM Sean Gillies <sean.gill...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Chuck, > > I've got a version of a package on PyPI that requires Numpy 2.0.0rc1 at build > time. Not the best decision in hindsight, but I assumed that Numpy was the > kind of project that wouldn't remove published distributions unless there > were security issues. It had not up today, right? Would it be possible to > restore 2.0.0rc1? > > On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 9:20 AM Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I just got through deleting a bunch of pre-releases on PyPi and it occurred >> to me that we should have a policy as to what releases should be kept. I >> think that reproducibility requires that we keep all the major and micro >> versions, but if so, we should make that an official guarantee. Perhaps a >> short NEP? This might even qualify for an SPEC. Thoughts? >> >> Chuck > > > -- > Sean Gillies > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ > Member address: matti.pi...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ Member address: arch...@mail-archive.com
