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

[Peter Cock]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Brad Chapman <chapmanb at 50mail.com> wrote:
>
> Peter;
>
>> It looks like as a side effect of the "Auto-hide old releases" feature
>> Biopython 1.63b was the shown as the current entry on PyPI - probably
>> the most recent uploaded as I would guess Biopython 1.63, 1.64 and
>> 1.65 were already hosted on PyPI (they were not on the list in the email
>> notice).
>>
>> I've gone in via the PyPI clunky web-interface to make 1.65 the default
>> again (hide 1.63b, unhide 1.65, click change).
>
> Thanks so much for catching this and for filing the bug upstream. That's my
> fault, I just ran the script and didn't check.

Easily done, so I filed an issue to try to raise awareness:

https://github.com/pypa/pep470/issues/3

Also these updates appear on the PyPI RSS feed and Twitter bots:

https://github.com/pypa/pep470/issues/2

>> My guess is we don't need to tweak or build process so that future source
>> code tar-balls get pushed up to PyPI automatically?
>>
>> http://biopython.org/wiki/Building_a_release
>
> Yes, I think we're good to go here and have been doing this for all the recent
> releases.

Good.

>> Should we make the next step as suggested in their FAQ to change
>> our PyPI hosting mode to:
>>
>> * Only allow files hosted on PyPI. This is the default, preferred, and will be
>> the only available option.
>
> Sounds good to me. They're going to force it on us in three months anyways so
> no harm in changing over now.

Agreed.

Peter