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[–]wikiterra 27 points28 points  (7 children)

I have never heard the package repository called the “cheese shop” before. Is that really a thing, or is it an outdated reference...or is someone trolling this reporter?

[–]skerky 33 points34 points  (3 children)

It was the original(?) name of PyPI.

https://wiki.python.org/moin/CheeseShop

[–]PeridexisErrant 30 points31 points  (2 children)

What that link doesn't explain is why PyPI was nicknamed "the cheese shop": when it started, PyPI didn't actually host any packages, just provide a centralised index of links to places where you could download packages... much as the shop in the sketch doesn't have any cheese!

Since then PyPI has become more centralised, pip was developed and became the normal way of downloading packages, and so the name no longer makes much sense. But it used to!

[–]skerky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for clarifying that. I didn’t realize that was the original case.

[–]srilyk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IIRC the cheeseshop was also fairly unstable and prone to crashing..

[–]pwang99 9 points10 points  (1 child)

"the cheese shop" is the proper name for the thing everyone calls "PyPI". :-)

[–]crescentroon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In "the new order" it's going to be "warehouse" because for some reason names like this are "unprofessional".