On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:37 AM, holger krekel <hol...@merlinux.eu> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 19:34 +0100, Lennart Regebro wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:34 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >> > I'm not saying that it's not a good idea to host packages on PyPI, >> > but forcing the community into doing this is not a good idea. >> >> I still don't understand why not. The only reasons I've seen are >> "Because they don't want to" or "because they don't trust PyPI". And >> in the latter case I'm assuming they wouldn't use PyPI at all. >> >> And of course, nobody is forcing anyone, just like nobody is forcing >> you to use PyPI. :-) > > I understood there is the idea to disable external links within a couple > of months. That does break backward compatibility in a considerable way. > > holger
But wouldn't this only be a change in pip/easy_install, not PyPI itself? I suppose you could explicitly break the external links by having them point to nothing if you are worried about the security or if it's some performance issue (that would indeed be a bad compatibility break, in case people are using those for other purposes). Otherwise, if it's a problem, then just use the old version of pip. Aaron Meurer _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
