On 14.02.2013 23:38, Donald Stufft wrote: > On Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 5:34 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> I don't follow the reasoning here. What's the difference between >> uploading a .py file and a .tar.gz file ? >> >> AFAIK, the only reason why the file extensions are restricted is to >> prevent people from uploading MP3s, movies or other material that doesn't >> belong on PyPI - not because there are security concerns. >> > Personally (might by different for Nick) it's less a problem with uploading > .py > files and more a problem with allowing arbitrary names.
Ok, then I guess allowing "[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+\.py" is enough for starters... we don't need to support the whole Unicode range on PyPI ;-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Feb 14 2013) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::::: Try our 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 Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
