On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 20:50 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote: > Phase 1 of PEP 438 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0438/) has begun. > > Deployed to production PyPI is: > - New packages default to pypi-explicit > - Old packages default to pypi-scrape-crawl > - Package Maintainers can select which hosting mode to use > - Package Maintainers can control what urls show up on their /simple/ > index
Many thanks, Donald, for your great work on this and also to Richard, for getting this live! Just switched pytest, execnet, pytest-xdist, tox and some more projects and it worked fine! Tensed to see how many people will switch without the mails, probably also depends on everybody making a bit of buzz :) Just quickly blogged a about it: http://holgerkrekel.net/2013/05/19/pep438-is-live-speed-up-python-package-installs-now/ . cheers, holger > What's still happening: > > - All existing packages will be processed to determine if they host files > on PyPI, if they host files externally but link directly, or if they Host > files externally and require scraping the home or download url pages. > - Taking the data obtained from processing email users to tell them if > their package can be moved to a more restrictive download option (e.g. all > their versions are installable directly from PyPI, or from a direct link from > PyPI). > - A Month after that actually moving them to their detected new hosting > mode (if possible on a per project basis). > > ----------------- > Donald Stufft > PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
