[Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

[Nick Coghlan]

On 9 May 2014 21:55, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 May 2014 12:44, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> I think it's important to point out that one of the driving factors that caused
>> me to finally push for changes and what lead to PEP438 being created was that
>> Mercurial's external hosted was being extremely flaky. I can't remember the
>> exact details but I want to say that over the span of a week or two I was
>> getting massive numbers of users complaining that ``pip install Mercurial``
>> was suddenly failing. This isn't to knock on the Mercurial folks or anything
>> but to simply point out that these problems aren't things that just happen to
>> (under|un)maintained software nor are they hypothetical. This PEP was born of
>> the frustration that was being relayed to me by end users of PyPI/pip.
>
> So now "pip install Mercurial" always fails? And adding a flag allows
> it to work as well as before, but no better? How did that fix the
> issue? Seriously - I'm missing something here.

Mercurial downloads are now available directly from PyPI.

Cheers,
Nick.

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