Richard Jones' Log: PyPI spam
Fri, 07 Nov 2003
I never anticipated http://www.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=John%20Bloxham&version=6 :)
My immediate thought is to lock off submission of packages through the web. That leaves only submission through the setup.py register command...
Update: entry removed from database by amk after I repeatedly forgot, thanks!
That's not an absurd. This is called increasing your google pagerank. Pypi is retranslated on many websites, so you instantly getting a huge amount of good quality links to your site...
Expect more, when more "google optimizers" will figure out the such a good possibility:)
OK, so there's ultimately a strange reasoning behind it. It's still absurd :)
In all of this, I forgot to kill the record off :)
Consider the record killed off.
It's annoying (though really rather absurd), but it doesn't seem that hard to deal with. A lot of people still aren't using distutils, and it would be nice if those people still used PyPI -- and there's a lot of people who are announcing Python projects without registering them with PyPI. If it gets harder to submit then it'll be harder to buck that trend.