[dogleash]

Regardless of your intent, you didn't acknowledging the parent poster's concern about python overall. Just exculpated PyPI.

I believe you would have received a much less pushback if you hadn't been coy about the obviously impending quiet deprecation (for lack of a better phrase) you finally acknowledged elsewhere in the thread.

[woodruffw]

There is no quiet deprecation. Literally nothing is deprecated in this announcement.

[dogleash]

I was reaching for a descriptor and ended up riffing off 'quiet quitting' and 'quiet firing'.

I understand you're not deprecating or recommending anything, and have learned in the meantime just how ugly python infighting is in and around package tooling. I can see the motivation to keep external messaging limited to saying a feature was added and everything else remains constant.

I work with a bunch of normies that think python packing starts and ends at "pip install"-ing systemwide on Windows. One day in the future the maintainers of the packages they use will likely be encouraged to use this optional new feature (and/or they already have been publicly). Even later in the future those end users themselves might be encouraged by warnings or errors not to install packages without this extra feature.

PyPI has deprecated nothing. Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct. The best kind of correct.

[woodruffw]

> I understand you're not deprecating or recommending anything, and have learned in the meantime just how ugly python infighting is in and around package tooling. I can see the motivation to keep external messaging limited to saying a feature was added and everything else remains constant.

You're insinuating an ulterior motive. Please don't do that; assume good faith[1].

(You can find trivial counterexamples that falsify this: PyPI was loud and explicit about deprecating and disabling PGP; there's no reason to believe it would be any less loud and explicit about a change here.)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html