[Distutils] how can projects with no files have downloads?

Chris Jerdonek chris.jerdonek at gmail.com
Sun Sep 14 22:06:30 CEST 2014


On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>
> On Sep 14, 2014, at 1:58 PM, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:
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> Hi Donald, all,
>
> I sometimes have doubts that the download numbers as shown by
> pypi.python.org are correct.  Here is one case where i am pretty sure
> something is wrong:
>
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytes
>
> That's a project a friend uploaded after he heart me saying at my devpi
> talk at EP2014 that i sometimes type "pip install pytes" :) It never had
> files ASFAIK but has "18 downloads". How comes?
>
> holger
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>
> I dunno!
>
> I don’t see any reason why that would be the case, it’s possible that there
> is a bug in the rsyslog-cdn.py script. I’m not sure. I’m planning on
> rewriting
> that soon anyways to be tons better.

Out of curiosity, where in source control is that script located?

--Chris


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