On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:04 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
> Generally within 60-120 seconds it’s available in mirrors (most of them > resync once a minute). If anyone has downloaded it then they will have > pretty much permanently cached the package, first in the download cache and > then again in the wheel cache (assuming it wasn’t a wheel already, and they > had that enabled). The original package was NumPy. It had 30,982 downloads > in the last day, so we can average that out to 1290 downloads an hour or 21 > downloads a minute. If it takes you two minutes to notice it and delete it, > then there are ~40 people who already have the original version cached and > who will not notice the updated version. > This reminds me of Gmail's "unsend" feature where email would be delayed 10 seconds or something, giving a window to press the unsend button. Maybe something like that could be implemented? Like a minute or two in which you could unpublish? And a --no-regrets mode of course, for people that want to live the moment :-) Thanks, -- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro
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