Re: remove historic download/homepage links for a project

holger krekel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.catalog
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 13:47 +0100, Reinout van Rees wrote:
> On 28-02-13 10:28, holger krekel wrote:
> >I wrote a little command line tool "cleanpypi.py" for the
> >purposes of removing_all_  download/homepage metadata from all releases
> >of a project.
> 
> This sounds like you're removing older releases from pypi, effectively?

no, just the homepage/download urls from the metadata of all releases.

> That's the #2 thing I hate about some packages: removed releases
> that I faithfully pinned in my buildout (or requirements.txt).
> Removing releases is, imho, irresponsible.

it's bad, yes.

> 
> So... I hope I misunderstood your tool :-)

you did :)

holger

> 
> Reinout
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