On Oct 11, 2014, at 7:48 PM, Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12 October 2014 04:29, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I plan to put the external repositories (and the commands needed to use >>> them) >>> in the UI for PyPI. I suppose I should put that in the PEP as well, I was >>> more >>> focused on defining the API differences and the changes. >> >> I forgot to mention, one other thing I thought about, we could move the >> current >> external links to external repositories automatically. I’m not sure if this >> is >> a good idea because on some projects that will end up with a giant list of >> things >> that a user would be suggested to install. Perhaps it’d work to scan them for >> installable files and only move the ones where an installable file was >> discovered, >> though that could be error prone (for example right now bytereef.org is >> down, so >> we’d not discover any files there). > > If I recall Holger's suggestion correctly, it was just to move the > current "Download URL" links over, rather than the scraped links. Hmm, I thought his suggestion was to just leave the existing links alone so that the existing pip/easy_installs would continue to function as they do now? _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
