On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote:
...
> I'm more concerned about phishing style attacks. I don't want the PyPI
> admins to have to start scanning for hostile names like "distirbute".

Isn't this an issue for regular distributions too?

>
> So how often do the bootstrap files change?
>
> If relatively frequently, I would prefer this to be a project-specific
> privilege granted by the PyPI admins (at least for now).
>
> If rarely, then I'd be happy enough if the update process required PyPI
> admin involvement (the project whitelist is probably a better idea, though).

+1

Jim

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