[Distutils] PyPI Download Counts

[Noah Kantrowitz]

On Jun 9, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Alex Clark <aclark at aclark.net> wrote:

> Donald Stufft <donald <at> stufft.io> writes:
> 
>> So yes. I broke Download counts because they were not more important than
>> people being able to actually use PyPI to install from.
> 
> 
> FWIW:
> 
> 
> You missed the moral of the story: when you make a decision like this,
> someone will *always* disagree with you (even over the most trivial things).
> And even if they don't, they may disagree with your approach (e.g. why not
> sort problems with download counts before enabling the CDN) So the only way
> to make everyone happy is to consider everyone who will be affected by your
> actions, before you take action.

There is another way, make awesome and wait for history to determine who was happy :)

--Noah

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