On 9 May 2014 21:55, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9 May 2014 12:44, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >> I think it's important to point out that one of the driving factors that >> caused >> me to finally push for changes and what lead to PEP438 being created was that >> Mercurial's external hosted was being extremely flaky. I can't remember the >> exact details but I want to say that over the span of a week or two I was >> getting massive numbers of users complaining that ``pip install Mercurial`` >> was suddenly failing. This isn't to knock on the Mercurial folks or anything >> but to simply point out that these problems aren't things that just happen to >> (under|un)maintained software nor are they hypothetical. This PEP was born of >> the frustration that was being relayed to me by end users of PyPI/pip. > > So now "pip install Mercurial" always fails? And adding a flag allows > it to work as well as before, but no better? How did that fix the > issue? Seriously - I'm missing something here.
Mercurial downloads are now available directly from PyPI. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
