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jjjake / internetarchive

A Python and Command-Line Interface to Archive.org
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README.rst: add link to Repology #642

Closed vitaly-zdanevich closed 6 months ago

jjjake commented 6 months ago

Thanks for the contribution, however we do not recommend installing internetarchive or ia via a package manager. The recommended ways to install internetarchive or ia is via pip, installing from source (via github/pypi), or using a binary.

vitaly-zdanevich commented 6 months ago

But why?

jjjake commented 6 months ago

@vitaly-zdanevich As you'll notice on https://repology.org/project/python:internetarchive/versions, packages created by third parties tend to drift a great deal.

https://pypi.org/project/internetarchive/ and https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive/ are the only places we officially release packages and the only places we can guarantee are up to date.

I'm glad to see others are creating other packages if they find it useful, but we only officially support packages released on pypi and github at the moment. And with that in mind, it's the only place we point to in the official documentation.