This change, if kept in place, will really hurt Python itself.
PyPI already has the problem of looking like a rank and unweeded garden that goes to seed; in fact, had I known that development still took place on it, there are lots of features that I would already have been suggesting to try to improve it. Think of the awful experience it gives newcomers: they have to wade through dozens of...
2009-11-03 13:04:34 UTC in Python Package Index