On 05.02.2013 14:06, Lennart Regebro wrote: > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: >> PyPI will need to change for this to happen realistically if I recall. There >> is a hard limit on how large of a distribution can be uploaded to PyPI >> and there are, if I recall, valid distributions which are larger than that. > > Anyone know which ones? scipy is the largest I know of, at 6-7 MB. > >> Personally I want the installers to only install from PyPI so my suggestion >> if this is something that (the proverbial) we want to do, PyPI should gain >> some notion of a soft limit for distribution upload (to prevent against >> DoS) with the ability to increase that size limit for specific projects who >> can file a ticket w/ PyPI to have their limit increased. > > That sounds sensible.
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