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It's funny, I used to have a very popular (~2k pageviews a month, 1st or second search result on google) tutorial on how to get a package onto pypi. I deleted i

by kough 8y ago

It's funny, I used to have a very popular (~2k pageviews a month, 1st or second search result on google) tutorial on how to get a package onto pypi. I deleted it because since then the PyPI team have written a good guide on how to do it: https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/ https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/ . If you're reading this and wondering how to create a python package, follow that. Everything else is going to be wrong, or out-of-date, or worse.

saagarjha 8y ago
It might have been better to leave the content up, but put a large disclaimer recommending the official guide. Is there any reason you didn’t do this?
- warmwaffles 8y ago
  Speaking for myself, when I skim an article first, I look for code examples and work my way backwards. I have missed disclaimers before.
  - goldfeld 8y ago
    Well, and no harm done then. We shouldn't be taking historical content offline just because people have become too inattentive to analyze things top to bottom. The code might even just work still.
- kough 8y ago
  Change starts at home.
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    Personally, I would try very hard to avoid deleting things that I put up on my website, if that's what you were asking.
    - kough 8y ago
      I wasn't asking anything. The web is ephemeral and the information on that page became superfluous.