<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 16:23, Martijn Faassen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:faassen@startifact.com">faassen@startifact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> I start being scared of using pypi.<br>
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</div>Why?</blockquote><div><br>Because I can imagine case where I would like to remove a package.<br><br>I did just that in a totally unrelated piece of software where I wrote an extension. After a while I realized, that another extension was not all that different, so I refactored the other extension and now it contains my features as a configuration option.<br>
<br>I was just made clear, that this might not work very well in pypi. Scared is a very strong word for what I intended to say.<br><br>I do not want to abuse you here as a support forum for pypi, but would it be possible to publish a new release, but without providing the distribution files?<br>
The intention would be, not the break the installations with pinned versions, but breaking attempts to get the newest versions, because the distribution files would be missing. The people might then check the webpage of pypi, where the readme would state that the package has been discontinued and can be found in package x.y. As a next step, pypi might offer some way to ignore these packages in searches.<br>
<br>If this would work, it could be a way to reduce packages over time (Provided the dependency reduction shows that they don't need a live on their own).<br><br>Best regards, <br><br> Patrick</div></div><br>