[GMG-Devel] Fwd: Important notice about your projects on PyPI

[Christopher Allan Webber]

So I guess we should deal with this.

I think I'm going to be revisiting python packaging in the next few
weeks.  We've never done a proper release tarball / sdist that I think
is actually usable.  Time to change that.

Donald Stufft writes:

> Hello cwebber!
>
> Please forgive me if this is the second (or third... I swear I tested it fully
> this time!) copy you've received of this message, a bug has forced us to
> resend the batch. Sorry for the extra noise D:
>
> This is an automated message because you are listed as an owner or maintainer
> of the following project on PyPI:
>
> * mediagoblin
>
> Due to the acceptance of PEP 470, PyPI is going to remove the ability for a
> project to host it's files somewhere other than on PyPI, but still have PyPI
> instruct installers (such as pip) to go and fetch this file automatically.
> PEP 470 removes this feature and any project relying on it will need to either
> be moved to hosting on PyPI or, if you wish to continue to host it externally,
> you'll need to host your own repository and instruct your users to add that
> repository to their installer. To give you time to adjust, this change will 
> not
> happen for 3 months, but after that 3 month deadline has expired, unless you
> act some or all of the files for the above projects will no longer be found by
> automated installers.
>
> If you wish, there is a script available at 
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pep470
> which can be used to automatically migrate any of the affected files for your
> own projects to PyPI.
>
> If you wish to continue to host your files yourself instead of uploading them
> to PyPI, then you should follow the instructions at
> https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/self_hosted_repository/.
>
> If you have any questions about the migration, please first check the FAQ at
> https://github.com/pypa/pep470/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions which will be
> updated with any questions and answers that come up during the migration
> process.
>
> Here are all of the links that we've discovered for each project of yours 
> which
> are not currently hosted on PyPI:
>
> mediagoblin:
>     http://mediagoblin.org/download/mediagoblin-0.0.4.tar.gz
>     http://mediagoblin.org/download/mediagoblin-0.0.5.tar.gz
>     http://mediagoblin.org/download/mediagoblin-0.1.0.tar.gz
>     http://mediagoblin.org/download/mediagoblin-0.2.0.tar.gz
>     http://mediagoblin.org/download/mediagoblin-0.2.1.tar.gz
>     http://mediagoblin.org/download/mediagoblin-0.3.0.tar.gz
>     http://mediagoblin.org/download/mediagoblin-0.3.2.tar.gz
>     http://mediagoblin.org/download/mediagoblin-0.4.0.tar.gz
>     http://mediagoblin.org/download/mediagoblin-0.7.1.tar.gz
>     http://mediagoblin.org/download/mediagoblin-0.8.0.tar.gz
>
> Thanks for your time!
>
> Donald Stufft
> PyPI Administrator