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Making Py Pi Sux Less Key

The document provides suggestions for improving PyPI: 1) Always upload packages to PyPI to ensure availability and allow for mirroring by other sites. 2) Never remove released packages from PyPI to avoid breaking installations that depend on pinned versions. 3) Do proper releases by including metadata, descriptions, source distributions, and eggs for Windows, and consider PyPI an ecosystem rather than a personal package storage.

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Three suggestions for making PyPI sux less Andreas Jung ZOPYX Ltd. info@zopyx.com

Always upload your packages to PyPI !

Why? • all packages hosted on PyPI must be available at any time • we have PyPI mirrors • but we can not mirror all external sites • big installations using zc.buildout depend on PyPI heavily

Never ever remove released packages from PyPI!

Why? • Large installations often pin all dependency versions for reproducability • removing a released package will break our installations

Do proper releases!

Proper releases • ensure that it contains reasonable metadata and package description • upload source distros (setup.py sdist) • upload egg release for binary stuff (Win) only • no need to upload eggs for Python-only packages • http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zopyx.trashﬁnder

Help keeping PyPI healhty and useful • Fullﬁllbasic standards when releasing while stuff on PyPI • Consider PyPI as an eco-system and not as your personal unﬂushed package toilet • PyPI does not belong to you - it belongs to all of us and it should be useful to all of us