On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> wrote: > > On 11 Mar, 2013, at 9:18, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> >> wrote: >>> But this isn't necessarily true, there is another solution: mirror your >>> requirements locally. >> >> I do that. This is not a solution, because your requirements yesterday >> is not your requirements tomorrow. > > So? When your requirements change you change the local mirror.
How? You can't mirror something that you can't reach. The only local solution to this is to mirror every file that is reachable via PyPI, in advance. That is obviously *not* a feasible solution. > I guess the only way we will know why some authors don't upload archives to > PyPI is to ask (some of) them. Right. I don't think it's feasible to discuss speculative reasons, and in any case I strongly believe that whatever reason people have, we still should not let the Python tools install packages from third-party hosts by default. If you have your own index (like Plone currently does, largely because of the problems caused by having packages on several different servers) that should of course be allowed. I have a list of emails already, if somebody wants to ask people. :-) It's 2651 emails though, and I think most of those people have registeres packages that doesn't actually have *any* distributions. :-) I didn't check for that. //Lennart _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
