Donald Stufft <donald.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: > This sort of thing would be nice to have - especially if it could be > configured to be on by default (with command-line args to enable the > reverse behaviour.) Though to be quite honest I don't actually know > how many packages I currently use that aren't downloaded directly from > the cheeseshop. > > I was unpleasantly surprised by a few that I use that aren't directly from the > index.
And many people have been pleasantly surprised by external packages. And package managers like http://code.activestate.com/pypm/ don't have any problems with external packages. They even automatically generate binaries. > I don't know how likely an on by default option would be as that would be a > fairly major change and will break for a lot of people who don't know to use > it. Indeed. Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
