Andreas Jung wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > >> I guess it's better to tell the package authors about your >> use of their packages and offer them help in hosting their >> packages on more reliable infrastructures. > > > > >> If that doesn't solve your problem, it's likely better >> to either setup your own index to override the PyPI one >> (should be easy to do in zc.buildout and AFAIK at least >> Plone is already doing that), or you stop using >> the package and look for alternatives. > > Sorry - I disagree completely. As developer I am into developing > software and not into building private infrastructure to get around the > deficiencies of PyPI
Well, we're trying to change those ... > and the ignorance of some package maintainers > caring about the needs of the developers using their packages. ... can't help with this, though. Package authors typically have a wide range of motivations to write and share software for others to use. They don't necessarily share your views or see a need to fulfill your particular requirements. If you do have a business requirement to rely on their packages, I'd suggest you'd ask those package authors for a support contract. That would likely help them adapt to your needs ;-) Back to your proposal: In your particular case, I don't see how the proposal would have helped you - under the proposal, the package would have been removed from the PyPI index, so either way, there would have been no working automatic access to the package download links. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jun 17 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2010-07-19: EuroPython 2010, Birmingham, UK 31 days to go ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
