Agreed. The ironic downside of not having Windows-style telemetry is you can't prove how rarely-used obscure old packages are, or identify the small set of people still using them a decade after everyone else stopped. (You can search github repos for references, as a poor alternative.)
More useless or costly than not implementing rate limit at all on pypi, so that noobs at gigantic companies never ever use a cache or a mirror?
Re:GIL Become Optional in Python 3.13
by scrollaway on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @12:04PM
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No idea how that’s related
You still have to find someone who both wants and can maintain them. That's not always a given.
And also, why? If I donate to the PSF, do I really want my money to go into the maintenance of ... checks notes ... MacOS 9 path manipulation functions (https://docs.python.org/it/3.7/library/macpath.html)?
Just because you're well-funded doesn't mean you get to spend money on useless things. And most of the python community would consider this useless. Nobody even made a pypi copy of it.