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| From | Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: PyPi Module Removal |
| Date | 2013-09-03 17:08 -0400 |
| References | <5226434B.2020103@gameservers.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.18.1378242534.5461.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On 9/3/2013 4:15 PM, Brian Rak wrote: > I was trying to install wxPython earlier today. Not RTFMing, I tried > 'easy_install wx', which ended up installing this strange module: > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wx > > Looking at the download stats, it seems to be confusing ~1000 users a > month, while not providing any significant functionality. > > I don't really have any way to contact the author of the module. Is > there any way to have this deleted/renamed? There is a PyPI/catalog mailing list, which I believe is the one mirrored as gmane.comp.python.org at news.gmane.com. However, the PyPI admins are reluctant to unilaterally delete a package. They might try to contact the owner of 'wx'. To bad wcPython did not grab the abbreviation. -- Terry Jan Reedy
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Re: PyPi Module Removal Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-09-03 17:08 -0400
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