On 15 May 2014 20:44, "Daniele Sluijters" <daniele.sluijt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Has anyone considered what this will mean for people on distributions > that ship older pip versions that can't be upgraded outside of the > release cycle (like Debian and Redhat)?
Even RHEL/CentOS 7 don't include pip in the base OS & EPEL can be upgraded. However, even with that, the server side links may still need to stick around for a while longer to account for the various distro upgrade cycles. Cheers, Nick. > > On 15 May 2014 10:09, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 15 May 2014 00:03, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> I’ve just published a draft of PEP 470 - Using Multi Index Support for > >>> External to PyPI Package File Hosting > >>> > >>> You can see this online at http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0470/or > >>> read below > >>> > >> > >> For the record: I reviewed Donald's initial draft of this PEP and did some > >> light copy editing when adding it to the PEPs repo, so this PEP can be taken > >> as reflecting my perspective as well. > > > > FWIW, +1 from me. The model is clean and understandable, and uses the > > existing --extra-index-url feature in pip, so we're not introducing an > > untried approach (with all the potential for getting the UI wrong that > > implies). > > > > Setting up an index is pretty straightforward for anyone already doing > > their own hosting, and people using places like Sourceforge where > > adding a static index might be problematic, could host one on their > > project's pythonhosted.org area. So it's hard to see the cost of > > maintaining an index as a blocker for projects. > > > > Paul. > > _______________________________________________ > > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > > > -- > Daniele Sluijters > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
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