Łukasz Langa <lukasz <at> langa.pl> writes: > > I don't fully understand your explanation. Judging by the link that > > Donald posted (thanks!) it seems that PEP 470 introduced extra work > > for him that would not have been present had things been left in place. > > IIRC the PyPI maintainers were constantly nagged about “PyPI reliability issues” that were instead > external hosting issues. Everybody was affected every now and then whenever tummy.com or other external > servers for popular packages were down. Or at least I know *I was*. Way too often.
But making them completely unreachable does not increase reliability. :) > > But if the majority prefers PyPI that way, I'll stop arguing. > > I’m not sure what you mean here but if you want to argue for reverting PEP 470, I wouldn’t hold my breath. No, I mean what we're doing now. Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ 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