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[Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Fri May 9 14:39:03 CEST 2014 
Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> You're claiming that Mercurial moved to hosting on PyPI solely because
> users suddenly needed to add a flag to install from pip? As opposed to
> because PyPI gave them a more reliable hosting platform, for example?
> OK. I certainly can't give any evidence to dispute that claim,
> although I'm surprised.

That is my understanding of the posted statistics, too.  PyPI was overloaded,
the improved infrastructure fixed that, so more projects now host on PyPI.



Stefan Krah
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