JWjwilk·Nov 13, 2022
Some of the links in the paragraph about python-requests have bitrotted. Fixed links:
https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/3729
https://foss.heptapod.net/pypy/cffi/-/issues/295
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A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
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7 sources> Weirdly, when I'm evaluating open source libraries having their own domain name rather than a site on GitHub pages or ReadTheDocs is a very slight mark against them in my book - because of exactly this.
> If a project has its own domain name, it has better be VERY confident that it will be renewing that domain for decades to come.
The requests documentation is hosted on ReadTheDocs already. Also you can generate the docs yourself:
https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/main/docs/Makefile#L25
I find your focus on the domain kind of odd to be honest. I'm not really sure why it's so important.
In The domain for the Python Requests library is expiredFrom https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/6140:
> The domain is still owned by Kenneth and the maintainers haven't had access to it in quite some time.
and:
> For those looking for alternatives, https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ should be returning docs correctly again. This has been the "official" location for some time as we lack controls on the python-requests domains. I'll update again once we receive a response from Kenneth.
In The domain for the Python Requests library is expiredGitHub issue: https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/6140
In The domain for the Python Requests library is expiredPython-Requests.org Domain Suspended
4 points · Open discussionThis is a very interesting question.
Are you interested in any particular languages?
For Python, take a look at: https://github.com/psf/requests
In Ask HN: Codebases with great, easy to read code?I will never understand why this has been included in the standard library instead of as a standalone library available for download. Now it's locked to the Go release cycle and have the potential to languish because of backward compatibility concerns.
The decision to include it is perplexing when other language ecosystems have chosen to keep this kind of functionality out of the standard lib, e.g. requests in python[1]. To quote Kenneth Reitz: "...the standard library is where a library goes to die."
[1] https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/2424
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