[Python-Dev] Yearly PyPI breakage (original) (raw)

Nathaniel Smith njs at pobox.com
Tue May 3 16:09:45 EDT 2016

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:

Hello, Could someone enlighten me which hoops I have to jump through this year in order to keep pip downloads working? Collecting cdecimal Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement cdecimal (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for cdecimal You are using pip version 7.1.2, however version 8.1.1 is available. You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

If this continues, I'm going to release a premium version that's 50% faster and only available from bytereef.org or Anaconda.

There's no point in making threats -- you're threatening the air. PyPI is maintained by one overloaded developer (Donald Stufft, sponsored by HPE as part of their openstack work) with help from a few overloaded, burned-out volunteers. Everyone wants PyPI to be awesome and useful; your frustration is totally understandable, and lots of us share it. But the limitation here is that we have ~one person running a website that serves ~100,000,000 requests/day, and running as fast as they can just to keep things from breaking more than they already have. As long as that's the case it doesn't matter what "should" happen, there's no-one to do it.

-n

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