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  could you change PYPI downloads number for not-uploaded packages? dmitrey15@gmail.com - 2013-07-22 08:44 -0700
    Re: could you change PYPI downloads number for not-uploaded packages? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-07-22 16:52 +0100
    Re: could you change PYPI downloads number for not-uploaded packages? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-07-23 09:08 +1000

#51048 — could you change PYPI downloads number for not-uploaded packages?

Hi all,
could you change PYPI downloads number for not-uploaded packages from zeros to real posivive numbers? For example, my projects download links are binded to my website , and thus people see misleading zeros, e.g.
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/openopt
Downloads (All Versions):
0 downloads in the last day
0 downloads in the last week 

Or, even better, taking into account that some people install packages from subversion/git/etc repository, invoke "+1" when someone runs "python setup.py install" (or "develop") (provided internet connection is present)

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Regards, D.
http://openopt.org/Dmitrey

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#51049

On 2013-07-22 16:44, dmitrey15@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> could you change PYPI downloads number for not-uploaded packages from zeros to real posivive numbers? For example, my projects download links are binded to my website , and thus people see misleading zeros, e.g.
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/openopt
> Downloads (All Versions):
> 0 downloads in the last day
> 0 downloads in the last week
>
> Or, even better, taking into account that some people install packages from subversion/git/etc repository, invoke "+1" when someone runs "python setup.py install" (or "develop") (provided internet connection is present)

The maintenance and development of PyPI is discussed on the Distutils-SIG. 
Please bring your concerns there.

   http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/distutils-sig/

In short, if you want to have download counts, you will need to host your 
package downloads from PyPI itself. There is no good way for PyPI to count 
downloads from any other source.

What you might want to ask for instead is to have the download count not shown 
when the packages are not hosted on PyPI. That would be a reasonable change that 
I think the PyPI team would accept.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco

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#51060

Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2013-07-22 16:44, dmitrey15@gmail.com wrote:

> > For example, my projects download links are binded to my website ,
> > and thus people see misleading zeros […]

> In short, if you want to have download counts, you will need to host
> your package downloads from PyPI itself.

Also of interest to this group is that PyPI is transitioning to strongly
encourage hosting files at PyPI, and installer tools will default to not
installing files hosted elsewhere.

See PEP 438 “Transitioning to release-file hosting on PyPI”
<URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0438/> for the details. As
Robart said, it's best not discussed here, but at the ‘distutils-sig’
forum <URL:http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/distutils-sig/>.

-- 
 \           “I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I |
  `\        consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no |
_o__)  superhuman authority behind it.” —Albert Einstein, letter, 1953 |
Ben Finney

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