On 1 September 2015 at 00:17, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 31 August 2015 at 14:32, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It *may* be worth hacking in special case handling for the packages >> already hosted externally, but we can do that as exactly that (i.e. a >> special case providing a legacy bridging mechanism until a better >> solution is available), rather than as an indefinitely supported >> feature. > > Hmm, I'm not aware of any concrete suggestions along those lines. > According to the PEP, 3 months after it is implemented all projects on > PyPI will be in pypi-only mode, and all of the other legacy modes will > be unavailable, and unused. No external links will be visible, no > link-scraping will occur, and the relevant code could be removed from > installer tools such as pip. > > Are you suggesting that this shouldn't occur?
I'm saying we can look at the numbers at the end of the grace period and decide what to do then :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
