[Distutils] PyPI is a sick sick hoarder

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Fri May 15 22:28:19 CEST 2015


On 16 May 2015 at 08:27, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:

>> If folk consider PyPI a sort of historical archive then perhaps we
>> could have a feature to select 'supported' versions by the author, and
>> allow a query parameter to ask for all the versions.
>
> You could simply limit the number of versions from PyPI
> you consider.

Yes - it would be nice IMO to give package authors some influence over
that though.

-Rob

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