[Distutils] URL Structure of Packages URLs

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Sat Oct 12 23:42:26 CEST 2013


On Oct 12, 2013, at 08:50 PM, Floris Bruynooghe wrote:

>Sounds like this could be addressed with a lintian warning and a long
>transition time (~2 years) so leaving proper redirects around would be
>advisable.

Sure, but my point was that people will use the most easily discoverable
pattern available, which currently is the download link from the package's
PyPI page.  If we want to make some other link more commonly used, it should
be more easily discoverable.

-Barry

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