On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 03:08:05AM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote: > Once we deflate our current set of packages down to a reasonable > number, the packages listed in PyPI will immediately start to > reflect "the state of reality right now". As a result, we'll > hopefully be able to get some new blood in the form of new > developers that use the smaller bits outside Zope to help us tease > the truly independent pieces out of the larger pile. If we do this, > at no time after the deflation will PyPI listings ever as badly > advertise "the state of reality" as it is advertised right now, and > the community will hopefully again start to grow.
I agree with a lot of what you wrote, but I don't understand this last bit. All the currently released packages will continue to live on pypi more or less forever, no? To paraphrase a wise man, "Releasing a package means always having to say you're sorry" ;-) -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
