Duplicate/confusing entry in pypi

[gugu91]

Description of issue / feature request

Is there any difference between: https://pypi.org/project/locust/ and https://pypi.org/project/locustio/ ?

Also, there is a this conda package: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/locust and this: https://anaconda.org/auto/locustio

[cgoldberg]

https://pypi.org/project/locustio/ is the official

[cgoldberg]

hmm.. this is super confusing considering pip install locust (instead of pip install locustio) will get you an outdated version right now.

@heyman do you have the access to the locust namespace on PyPI? If so, I think we should publish the next release there as well as locustio. Could you add me as a maintainer to locust on PyPI?

[cyberw]

@heyman We should try to fix this. Ideally I think we should switch to using locust instead of locustio (but that would be a major change). IMO, the unused one should be removed or replaced with some sort of a deprecation notice.

[heyman]

@cgoldberg Yes, I have access to the locust namespace. Currently what's uploaded there is just a setup.py with a install_requires=["locustio"] so one should get the latest locustio version when running pip install locust(though I guess you won't get the latest version when running pip install locust --upgrade if you already have an older version of the locustio package installed).

@cyberw I think that ideally we would switch to locust, keep all the already uploaded locustio packages so that we wouldn't break projects that have a version pinned, and then make so that the newest version of locustio was some kind of dummy package that would issue a warning telling people to user locust instead. I'm not sure if that is possible though?

[heyman]

I guess that we could switch to locust and then keep uploading a new setup.py (to locustio) with install_requires=["locust==x.y"] for every version we release. That would be a maintenance burden though (but maybe we could automate it?).

[cyberw]

There seems to be a way to output log messages (and maybe even throw an error) after package installation, maybe that could be useful.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20288711/post-install-script-with-python-setuptools

[heyman]

I believe pip swallows all output, at least when the installation is successful (maybe it's possible to output a message while rasing an error).

[cyberw]

Fixed! Release is now on locust, and trying to install locustio gives a helpful error message:

**** Locust package has moved from 'locustio' to 'locust'. Please update your reference (or pin your version to 0.14.6 if you dont want to update to 1.0) ****