[Distutils] pypi simple page for setuptools returning 11034 links

[Georg Brandl]

On 10/06/2014 01:17 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 6 October 2014 11:59, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> On Oct 6, 2014, at 6:39 AM, Joost Molenaar <j.j.molenaar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> When I run `pip list --outdated` on my raspberry pi, pip seems to hang on
>>> setuptools. Investigating a bit, I found that currently, there are 11034 links being
>>> returned [1], weighing 1379 KiB. Many of these are links to issue pages on github and
>>> bitbucket, also, many of these links are duplicated 20-25 times.
>>>
>>> Is this normal/expected? Is it a bug, if so, should I file it somewhere?
>>
>> It’s normal in that it’s what PyPI has always done and changing it requires
>> going through a process.
>>
>> It just so happens that I’ve started that process (see PEP 470!) and
>> hopefully this will change in the near future :)
> 
> Having said that, I find the PyPI page for setuptools (which is the
> long_description field, which is where all those links come from) to
> be annoyingly long and unhelpful.
> 
> Can I suggest that it would be helpful if setuptools removed some of
> the ancient history from the PyPI page? Possibly even replace the huge
> changelog with a link to the changelog file, rather than having it all
> inline? That would make the PyPI page more readable and usable, and as
> a fortuitous side-effect, remove all the useless links from the pypi
> simple page.

Indeed. The table of contents entries alone for the changelog takes up
four screen pages.

Georg