Richard Jones <r1chardj0...@gmail.com> wrote: > There still remains the usability issue of unsophisticated users running into > external indexes and needing to cope with that in one of a myriad of ways as > evidenced by the PEP. One solution proposed and refined at the EuroPython > gathering today has PyPI caching packages from external indexes *for packages > registered with PyPI*. That is: a requirement of registering your package (and > external index URL) with PyPI is that you grant PyPI permission to cache > packages from your index in the central index - a scenario that is ideal for > users.
-1. That is unlikely to solve the draconian-terms-and-conditions problem and one reason to host externally is to get your own download statistics. > Organisations not wishing to do that understand that they're the ones > causing the pain for users. No. First, checksummed external packages could be downloaded without asking at all. Second, if international authors are required to study US export law before uploading, I wonder who is causing the pain. Finally, how can an author cause pain for users? Without him, the work would not be there in the first place. Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
