On 03/16/2013 12:15 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 15 Mar 2013 16:16, "Carl Meyer" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> tl;dr: I see your points, we'll change the PEP to allow clients to use >> hostnames instead of the rel attributes if they prefer. > > I will veto any such change. Clients MUST NOT assume that the > architecture of the index service will be limited to a single host name, > they must process the explicit metadata provided by the index that > indicates which hosts the index controls. > > Adding a "--trust-indices" flag to make this optional in setuptools > would be fine, but it seems perverse to trust every aspect of an index > *except* its claims to control additional hosts.
Ok, based on this I retract my earlier comment. I've pushed a minor update to the PEP (at https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/pep-pypi, not yet at python.org) to clarify explicitly that indexes may choose to host internal files on a separate host/domain. Carl
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