On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 03:08:05AM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
Once we deflate our current set of packages down to a reasonable number, the packages listed in PyPI will immediately start to reflect "the state of reality right now". As a result, we'll hopefully be able to get some new blood in the form of new developers that use the smaller bits outside Zope to help us tease the truly independent pieces out of the larger pile. If we do this, at no time after the deflation will PyPI listings ever as badly advertise "the state of reality" as it is advertised right now, and the community will hopefully again start to grow.
I agree with a lot of what you wrote, but I don't understand this last bit. All the currently released packages will continue to live on pypi more or less forever, no? To paraphrase a wise man, "Releasing a package means always having to say you're sorry" ;-) -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com