[Distutils] PEP 438 - Transition Phase 1

[holger krekel]

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 20:50 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
> Phase 1 of PEP 438 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0438/) has begun.
> 
> Deployed to production PyPI is:
>     - New packages default to pypi-explicit
>     - Old packages default to pypi-scrape-crawl
>     - Package Maintainers can select which hosting mode to use
>     - Package Maintainers can control what urls show up on their /simple/ index


Many thanks, Donald, for your great work on this and also to Richard,
for getting this live!  Just switched pytest, execnet, pytest-xdist, tox
and some more projects and it worked fine!

Tensed to see how many people will switch without the mails, probably
also depends on everybody making a bit of buzz :)  Just quickly blogged 
a about it: http://holgerkrekel.net/2013/05/19/pep438-is-live-speed-up-python-package-installs-now/ .

cheers,
holger



> What's still happening:
> 
>     - All existing packages will be processed to determine if they host files on PyPI, if they host files externally but link directly, or if they Host files externally and require scraping the home or download url pages.
>     - Taking the data obtained from processing email users to tell them if their package can be moved to a more restrictive download option (e.g. all their versions are installable directly from PyPI, or from a direct link from PyPI).
>     - A Month after that actually moving them to their detected new hosting mode (if possible on a per project basis).
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> Donald Stufft
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