Richard Jones <rich...@python.org> writes: > Given it appears to be controversial, I'm just going to drop it. I > just don't need the aggravation. PyPI can retain its ability to serve > up potentially confusing file content.
+1 for refusing new uploads of different files served with old names. Like it or not, PyPI is now a dependency system for applications, and its API relies on filenames. I don't want the aggravation of a dependency API that relies on filenames, but allows the same name to serve a different file. -- \ “Science and religion are incompatible in the same sense that | `\ the serious pursuit of knowledge of reality is incompatible | _o__) with bullshit.” —Paul Z. Myers, 2010-03-14 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
