> On Oct 3, 2014, at 10:29 AM, Wichert Akkerman <wich...@wiggy.net> wrote: > > >> On 03 Oct 2014, at 16:24, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2. Easily allow package authors to tell PyPI "my releases are hosted >> <here>" and have that advertised in such a way that tools can clearly >> communicate it to users, without silently introducing unexpected >> dependencies on third party services. > > I haven’t read the PEP, so this might be a stupid remark, but: is that > needed, when a package author can also say something like “add my repository > to your system with pip —add-repository <url>” ? > > Wichert.
So it’s not strictly required, and for pip versions less than 6.0 that’s essentially what will be happening. However providing that mechanism makes the discovery story a lot nicer. Instead of ``pip install foo`` coming back with a “I can’t find any downloads” error, it can come back with a “I can’t find any downloads, but here is the repositories that the author says they are using”. Basically it’s an affordance to make the UX of an external repository better. --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
