[Distutils] Re: older pypi packages

2018-12-18 Thread Robin Becker
On 18/12/2018 15:00, Joni Orponen wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 3:43 PM Tzu-ping Chung wrote: Paul has described the technical details behind this phenomenon, but to be more explicit: it is not pip that breaks older packages, but the new PyPI server (pypi.org instead of the old pypi.python.or

[Distutils] Re: older pypi packages

2018-12-18 Thread Joni Orponen
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 3:43 PM Tzu-ping Chung wrote: > Paul has described the technical details behind this phenomenon, but > to be more explicit: it is not pip that breaks older packages, but the > new PyPI server (pypi.org instead of the old pypi.python.org) that does. > > So no, there is not

[Distutils] Re: older pypi packages

2018-12-18 Thread Tzu-ping Chung
Paul has described the technical details behind this phenomenon, but to be more explicit: it is not pip that breaks older packages, but the new PyPI server (pypi.org instead of the old pypi.python.org) that does. So no, there is not a legacy mode in pip. Furthermore, you won’t be able to install t

[Distutils] Re: older pypi packages

2018-12-18 Thread Paul Moore
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 14:05, Paul Moore wrote: > > The PyPI index page for fcrypt (https://pypi.org/simple/fcrypt/) has > no file links on it. I don't know why, but there's nothing there for > pip to download. > > The "Download" link points to a file not on PyPI - maybe that's the > issue here, P

[Distutils] Re: older pypi packages

2018-12-18 Thread Paul Moore
The PyPI index page for fcrypt (https://pypi.org/simple/fcrypt/) has no file links on it. I don't know why, but there's nothing there for pip to download. The "Download" link points to a file not on PyPI - maybe that's the issue here, PEP 470 describes the process that was undertaken to remove ext

[Distutils] older pypi packages

2018-12-18 Thread Robin Becker
I recently had to rebuild a server and find that pip 18.1 is apparently unable to install at least some older packages eg $ bin/pip install fcrypt Collecting fcrypt Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement fcrypt (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for fcrypt th