Well... maybe the people who have stopped working on it due to the mysterious disappearance of 30,000 fundraised dollars, selling paid support but "delegat[ing] the actual work to unpaid volunteers", and a pattern of other issues from other community members who have not spoken up about them.
> he said his original goal was just to raise $5k to buy a computer. Privately, I was skeptical that the $5k computer had anything to do with Requests. Requests is a small pure-Python library; if you want to work on it, then any cheap laptop is more than sufficient. $5k is the price of a beefy server or top-end gaming rig.
Kenneth Reitz has probably done more to enrich my life than most anyone else who builds things. I wouldn't begrudge him the idea of a nice workstation for his years of labour. Yeah, he's very imperfect, but the author has absolutely lost me
It stopped accepting new features a decade ago, it doesn’t support HTTP/2, let alone HTTP/3, it doesn’t support async, and the maintainers ignored the latest security vulnerability for eight months.
It was good when it was new but it’s dangerously unmaintained today and nobody should be using it any more. Use niquests, httpx, or aiohttp. Niquests has a compatible API if you need a drop-in replacement.
I really like httpx’s handling of clients/sessions; it’s super easy to throw one in a context manager and then get multiple hits to the same server all reusing one http2 connection.
Strong agree. Pip doesn't really need Requests' functionality as far as I can tell, but the vendored transitive dependencies represent a considerable fraction (something like a quarter IIRC) of Pip's bulk. And a big fraction of that bulk (and it's much the same for Rich) at startup, even if ultimately it turns out that no web requests need to be made. Which in turn is the main reason why Pip on my machine takes longer than the https://lawsofux.com/doherty-threshold/ to process `pip install` with no actual package specified. (A process that involves importing more than five hundred Python modules, of which almost a hundred are Requests and its dependencies.)
(Of the non-Requests imports, about two thirds of them occur before Pip even considers what's on the command line — which means that they will be repeated when you use the `--python` option. Of course, Requests isn't to blame for that, but it drives home the point about keeping dependencies under control.)
tczMUFlmoNk|7 months ago
https://vorpus.org/blog/why-im-not-collaborating-with-kennet...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19826680
patcon|7 months ago
Kenneth Reitz has probably done more to enrich my life than most anyone else who builds things. I wouldn't begrudge him the idea of a nice workstation for his years of labour. Yeah, he's very imperfect, but the author has absolutely lost me
JimDabell|7 months ago
It was good when it was new but it’s dangerously unmaintained today and nobody should be using it any more. Use niquests, httpx, or aiohttp. Niquests has a compatible API if you need a drop-in replacement.
js2|7 months ago
mikepurvis|7 months ago
runjake|7 months ago
LLMs are funny.
sgarland|7 months ago
If you need it, sure, it’s great, but let’s not encourage pulling in 3rd party libs unnecessarily.
zahlman|7 months ago
(Of the non-Requests imports, about two thirds of them occur before Pip even considers what's on the command line — which means that they will be repeated when you use the `--python` option. Of course, Requests isn't to blame for that, but it drives home the point about keeping dependencies under control.)