[Python-Dev] Yearly PyPI breakage

[Stefan Krah]

Łukasz Langa <lukasz <at> langa.pl> writes:
> > I don't fully understand your explanation. Judging by the link that
> > Donald posted (thanks!) it seems that PEP 470 introduced extra work
> > for him that would not have been present had things been left in place.
> 
> IIRC the PyPI maintainers were constantly nagged about “PyPI reliability
issues” that were instead
> external hosting issues. Everybody was affected every now and then
whenever tummy.com or other external
> servers for popular packages were down. Or at least I know *I was*. Way
too often.

But making them completely unreachable does not increase reliability. :)


> > But if the majority prefers PyPI that way, I'll stop arguing.
> 
> I’m not sure what you mean here but if you want to argue for reverting PEP
470, I wouldn’t hold my breath.

No, I mean what we're doing now.


Stefan Krah