[Distutils] PyPI Download Counts

[Nick Coghlan]

On 10 June 2013 06:04, 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.

And, indeed, we plan to run future changes of this magnitude through
the PEP process for exactly this reason. We can't promise not to break
some features in order to achieve gains we think are worth the loss,
but we *can* promise not to break such features without advance
warning and explicit consideration of alternatives that may allow us
to avoid the breakage in the first place.

Regards,
Nick.

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