You may know that there are approximately 3 pypi maintainers, all overworked and one paid. It is amazing that it works at all. I don't know anything about that particular decision though.
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:21 PM Dmitry Trofimov < dmitry.trofi...@jetbrains.com> wrote: > Hi, > > as you probably already know, today the PyPI index page ( > https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=index) was deprecated and ceased > to be. > > Among other things it affected PyCharm IDE that relied on that page to > enable packaging related features from the IDE. As a result users of > PyCharm can no longer install/update PyPI packages from PyCharm. > > Here is an issue about that in our tracker: > https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-20081 > > Given that there are several hundred thouthands of PyCharm users in the > world -- all 3 editions: Professional, Community, and Educational are > affected -- this can lead to a storm of a negative feedback, when people > will start to face the denial of the service. > > The deprecation of the index was totally unexpected for us and we weren't > prepared for that. Maybe we missed some announcement. > > We will be very happy if the functionality of the index is restored at > least for some short > period of time: please, give as a couple of weeks. That will allow us to > implement a workaround and provide the fix for the several latest major > versions of PyChram. > > Does anybody know who is responsible for that decision and whom to > connect about it? Please help. > > Best regards, > > Dmitry Trofimov > PyCharm Team Lead > JetBrainshttp://www.jetbrains.com > The Drive To Develop > > _______________________________________________ > 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/dholth%40gmail.com >
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