On Fri, 9 May 2014 13:47:49 +0100 Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9 May 2014 13:25, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > >> You're claiming that Mercurial moved to hosting on PyPI solely because > >> users suddenly needed to add a flag to install from pip? As opposed to > >> because PyPI gave them a more reliable hosting platform, for example? > >> OK. I certainly can't give any evidence to dispute that claim, > >> although I'm surprised. > > > > I don’t know that for a fact but If my memory is correct that’s a reasonable > > assumption based on the timeline. > > As Stefan pointed out, improved PyPI infrastructure such as the CDN > seems like a much more likely reason for Mercurial to have switched.
Here is the only reference I could find: http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2013-July/052129.html Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
