Deprecate upload and register commands

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/setuptools/command/register.py b/setuptools/command/register.py
index 8d6336a1..98bc0156 100755
--- a/setuptools/command/register.py
+++ b/setuptools/command/register.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+from distutils import log
 import distutils.command.register as orig
 
 
@@ -5,6 +6,13 @@ class register(orig.register):
     __doc__ = orig.register.__doc__
 
     def run(self):
-        # Make sure that we are using valid current name/version info
-        self.run_command('egg_info')
-        orig.register.run(self)
+        try:
+            # Make sure that we are using valid current name/version info
+            self.run_command('egg_info')
+            orig.register.run(self)
+        finally:
+            self.announce(
+                "WARNING: Registering is deprecated, use twine to "
+                "upload instead (https://pypi.org/p/twine/)",
+                log.WARN
+            )