On May 30, 2013, at 5:43 AM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote:
> On 29 May, 09:24 pm, tom.pri...@ualberta.net wrote:
>> Tom Prince <tom.pri...@ualberta.net> writes:
>>> Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> writes:
>>>> So I'm emailing you all to warn you about this upcoming change since
>>>> Twisted is one of the major projects affected and also to see if the
>>>> Twisted developers would prefer a different rename than Twisted-Web.
>>>
>>> Looking at the project pages on pypi, those don't appear to be
>>> installable anyway. I think that it might make sense to just remove
>>> them, at this point.
>>
>> There appears to be a consensus to remove them, but I don't have access
>> to do that.
>
> What are we removing? All of the subprojects on PyPI?
Yes.
> If so, the release process will need to be adjusted to avoid re-adding them.
Thomas has already done that:
<http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/ReleaseProcess?action=diff&version=164&old_version=163>
> What makes them uninstallable? Wouldn't it make as much sense to just fix
> that? Is this only a PyPI interaction thing, or is there actually a problem
> with the packages being distributed?
We never tested installing them in any fashion; we certainly never did any
continuous integration on them. I don't think we ever fully figured out the
'namespace package' thing. Their distribution names won't satisfy a dependency
on 'Twisted', and 'Twisted' won't satisfy a dependency on them, but they
install the same files, so if another project attempted to use them as a
minimal dependency, you would have gotten a broken mess.
Given all this I can't remember why we bothered to put these on PyPI in the
first place, and it makes sense to remove them.
-glyph
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