I guess the use case is that you might want to build a wheel for an older release for a newer version of Python?
(This will hopefully change pretty soon, with the “upload 2.0” work.)
While this may quantify how disruptive the change would be to those projects that are able to and do upload additional binaries to PyPI later, it fails to quantify how many projects already completely circumvent this block before it is even introduced.
e.g. If you tell pip to install from source.. the result may already be that you install a binary that PyPI never saw. A common hack for dealing with NVidia internals, which can explode into a large CUDA major version x GPU arch x platform x implementation x python_version cartesian product. The "extras" mechanism is not quite sufficient to model such combinations.
sample code: https://github.com/Dao-AILab/causal-conv1d/blob/4f6ae4e26ae5... https://pypi.org/project/causal-conv1d/
This is unintuitive, but the TL;DR is that files will never change on PyPI, but (previously) a user could upload a new file to a release years after their last upload to that release. This has some legitimate use cases (like allowing people to support new Python versions without bumping a package’s version), but also makes introduces challenges around locking and release security that are elaborated in the thread linked by the blog post.
I agree this could probably be ratcheted down from 14 days over time, though.
PhilipRoman•48m ago
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edelbitter•29m ago
We also figured out 20 years ago that SHA1 was not quite as strong as initially estimated, and not quite 10 years ago that generating two colliding documents was merely a matter of some serious computing power. A few projects went ahead and changed the name of their master branch, but SHA256 preference remains elusive.