[Bug] Why the Heck are there TWO PyPi clients that say 'official'

[17jmumford]

Pinecone, Pinecone, Pinecone. I expect more from you. Tell me, what would a dev think if they went to the following link:

https://pypi.org/project/pinecone-client/

They'd probably go, "this looks official! It's maintained by Pinecone, it says it's official, it's linked back to a project called pinecone-python-client, and it works when I test it!"

Then, 3 months later another dev comes along and tries to use the inference endpoint. The client doesn't have it. He checks the github and sees the version on Github doesn't match the version in PyPi. It's then he discovers the horrific truth: There is a SECOND OFFICIAL CLIENT.

https://pypi.org/project/pinecone/

What horror! He switches out the package, and his IDE becomes filled with typing errors and failed imports from packages have that have moved.

Oh why oh why does the first client still say OFFICIAL!? It should say "DEPRECATED, DO NOT USE. GO IMPORT 'pinecone' INSTEAD OF 'pinecone-client'"

Please please fix this.

[jhamon]

Sorry for the confusion.

If you actually want to know, we always wanted to use the name pinecone but it was being squatted by an empty project and it took something like 18 months to get pypi admins to turn it over to us. PyPI doesn't have a nice way to rename/redirect as far as I know except to publish a second package under the new name.

I have a ticket to update the old one to guide people in the right direction.

[jhamon]

I've added info to the README and pushed an update to the legacy package distribution to hopefully make things more clear.