https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_Package_Index

Description: While the PyPI website is maintained by the Python Software
Foundation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_Software_Foundation>, its
contents are uploaded by individual package maintainers. Python package
managers such as pip default to downloading packages from PyPI.



https://pypi.python.org/pypi

Description: The Python Package Index is a repository of software for the
Python programming language. There are currently *43698* packages here.



https://pythonhosted.org/an_example_pypi_project/setuptools.html#registering-your-project

The normal work flow seems to be:
1. Register your project.
2. Upload your project.


I think a newcomer is likely to conclude that "pip" downloads packages from
the official repository (PyPI) and these packages have been uploaded to
PyPI by third-party developers.


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 6:53 AM, David Arnold <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 15/05/2014, at 8:32 AM, Mark Young wrote:
>
> > I know I'm just an anecdote, but as just a regular user of pypi, pip,
> and friends (I've never even posted something to pypi), when I say "pip
> install spam", I don't really care where it comes from and I have no
> expectation that pip has to get it from pypi.
>
> I guess just to prove Mark's not the only one (and perhaps because I'm
> feeling contrary), I should probably say that I don't expect that pip will
> necessarily download things from pypi either.  I'm used to packaging tools
> using CDNs, mirrors, and lists of sources to give me what I ask for in the
> way they think best at the time.  That's part of their value, really.
>
>
>
> d
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