[Biopython-dev] Fwd: Important notice about your projects on PyPI

[Peter Cock]

Hello all,

It seems there are some changes ahead with PyPI, the
Python Package Index which is one of the best ways to
distribute Python packages and deal with their dependencies.

Of the options below, I lean towards moving / mirroring
all our existing releases to PyPI - in part as in the long
term that means one less thing to administer on the OBF
volunteer maintained web server.

Does anyone here have first hand experience of this
migration?

On a related point, we ought to look at providing the
Windows pre-compiled Biopython as wheel format. e.g.
https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/appveyor/

Thanks,

Peter

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Donald Stufft <donald at python.org>
Date: Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 8:16 PM
Subject: Important notice about your projects on PyPI
To: p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com


Hello peterjc!

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:

* biopython

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:

biopython:
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.00a3.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.00a4.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.10.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.20.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.21.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.22.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.23.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.24.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.30.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.40b.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.41.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.42.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.43.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.44.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.45.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.46.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.47.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.48.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.49.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.49b.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.50b.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.51b.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.54b.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.55b.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.62b.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-1.63b.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-corba-0.2.1.tar.gz
    http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-corba-0.3.0.tar.gz

Thanks for your time!

Donald Stufft
PyPI Administrator
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