On 14.05.2014 21:48, Noah Kantrowitz wrote: > > On May 14, 2014, at 12:44 PM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > >> PyPI is still mainly the Python registry for mapping package >> names to URLs and descriptions. > > Sorry, going to have to stop you here. This, and all your conclusions based > on this assumption, are flat out incorrect. You are far far far in the > minority of people that think this is what PyPI is. It was this at one point, > but few old-timers are still around to remember those days and new users have > very different expectations driven by the cites linux package servers/systems > as well as tools like rubygems and cpan.
Noah, please reread the subject line and the message that started this thread. If we want to have a useful discussion, calling someone's conclusion incorrect is not helpful. If you'd read my reply to the end, you'd have noticed that my main point is that the users want easy installation of packages and don't care where these are hosted. This is why installers are attractive to users and this is also why so many people enjoy using them. However, such a requirement does not imply that all packages have to be hosted in a single place, with all the implications that arise from such a setup. Coming back to PyPI: Its main purpose is having a central place to register, search for and find packages. It doesn't matter where the distribution files are hosted, as long as the installers can find them. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, May 14 2014) >>> 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/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig