Er, yeah, sorry, I misspoke there. The change I made to the page just talks about the DNS being killed off and points to the PEP.
On 29 September 2013 16:44, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > Only the naming scheme is dead, protocol itself is still fine. > > On Sep 29, 2013, at 1:52 AM, Richard Jones <rich...@mechanicalcat.net> > wrote: > > Like Nick I'm not sure I see the urgency here. I'm going to add a > deprecation statement to the public mirroring page at /mirrors so it's > clear that protocol is dead (not just resting). > > > Richard > > > On 29 September 2013 13:07, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > >> >> On Sep 28, 2013, at 10:16 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > On 29 September 2013 11:10, Noah Kantrowitz <n...@coderanger.net> >> wrote: >> >> +1 >> >> >> >> --Noah >> > >> > Deprecating it as a consequence of PEP 449 makes sense, but is there >> > any urgency to dropping it? >> > >> > I'm not necessarily opposed to removing it, but what's the specific >> > *gain* in doing so? If it's just a matter of wanting to skip >> > implementing it for Warehouse, then I'd say +1 to leaving it out of >> > the API reimplementation, but I don't yet see the advantage in >> > removing it from the existing PyPI code base. >> > >> > If we do remove it, then it should probably only be after all the old >> > autodiscovery domain names have been redirected back to the main PyPI >> > server. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Nick. >> > >> > -- >> > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia >> >> Well the underlying reason is I think it's a dead end and I don't want to >> implement it in Warehouse. >> >> The reason for wanting to remove it *now* instead of just letting it >> naturally >> die when Warehouse becomes a thing is to remove the (unlikely) chance >> that someone starts to depend on it in the interim. Basically since afaik >> nobody even uses it (Crate did for awhile and I had to disable it because >> of false failures) the risk is minimal to removing it outright to prevent >> it from >> being used. >> >> Plus if the secret key has leaked (unlikely but possible given the >> implementation >> and the use of DSA) it's not just "cruft" it's outright dangerous. >> >> ----------------- >> Donald Stufft >> PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 >> DCFA >> >> > > > ----------------- > Donald Stufft > PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 > DCFA > >
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