[lxml-dev] did windows binary versions ever get removed from the cheeseshop?

[Stefan Behnel]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> To start off, I'm not 100% sure on this, so I'm just checking.
> 
> I thought at some stage I had a working windows installation of my 
> software that was using lxml 1.3 binaries (not 1.3.1 or something, just 
> 1.3). When I tried again today it didn't work anymore, and instead had 
> to start using lxml 1.3.4 (for instance).
> 
> Is it possible that someone for some reason removed the versions for 1.3 
> from the cheeseshop? If so, my general recommendation would be never to 
> do this, even if the packages are broken somehow. A release is a 
> release, and people might be depending on it. For this reason, never 
> remove release files, and also never overwrite release files.
> 
> Anyway, I'm not at all sure this actually happened with lxml, but I'm 
> just writing this to make sure it won't happen. :)

Thanks for the warning. However, I didn't remove anything myself and I
wouldn't know why Sidnei should have. I'm not sure but I have a feeling that
we never had any Windows binaries for 1.3...

Anyway, I agree that releases should stay where they were uploaded. There are
always reasons why you would want to go back to or compare/test with older
versions. Note that the "Index of Packages" even lists them all. I actually do
that by hand after each release - distutils/PyPI doesn't seem to have a way to
say: "don't hide other releases after an upload".

Stefan