On 08.05.2014 15:57, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 8 May 2014 23:39, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >> However, for some reason there's a strong resistance against >> doing this, which I frankly don't understand. > > Because we're taking responsibility for the end-to-end user experience > of PyPI, and are expressly trying to eliminate the elements of that > user experience that are beyond the control of the PyPI admin team
Oh, I guess you'd have to rewrite most of those 40k packages then :-) Seriously, the word "eliminate" in there does not sit well with our goals for openness. External services like github, sourceforge, bitbucket, dropbox, cdns, etc. are not per-se evil and unreliable. pip should acknowledge this and not try to "eliminate" all hosting services in the world per default [sound of Empire Strikes Back theme] ;-) > (even the question of "does this software actually work?" is in our > sights if you consider a long enough time span). That's hard enough > with just a couple of service providers (Fastly and Rackspace) in the > mix - it quickly becomes impossible if every new dependency from an > installation request adds a new point of failure. Like I said: the best option is to use a local directory which only contains packages files that you have inspected and actually trust :-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, May 08 2014) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com