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[Python-Dev] Typo in PEP-0423

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Dec 19 05:55:26 EST 2015 
On 19 December 2015 at 03:44, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Tim Legrand <timlegrand.perso at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Well, this looks like a rhetorical question :)
>
> It wasn't, I was hoping you'd be quicker at picking one than me (I don't
> publish packages on PyPI much myself so the docs all look like Greek to me
> :-).

There's an effort currently underway to significantly improve the
getting started tutorials on packaging.python.org, but it's
unfortunately going to be a long time before we can retire the legacy
docs completely - while parts of them have aged badly (and are
entirely superseded by packaging.python.org), other parts
unfortunately aren't covered anywhere else yet :(

Even once the new docs are in place, getting them to the top of search
of results ahead of archived material that may be years out of date is
likely to still be a challenge - for example, even considering just
the legacy distutils docs, the "3.1" and "2" docs appear in the
results at https://www.google.com/search?q=registering+with+the+package+index+site%3Apython.org&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8,
but the latest "3" docs don't.

Cheers,
Nick.

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