[Python-ideas] Re: [Suspected Spam]"Curated" package repo?

2023-07-05 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Chris Angelico writes: > Part of the desired protection is the prevention of typosquatting. > That means there has to be something that you can point pip to and > say "install this package", and it's unable to install any > non-curated package. I think that the goalposts are walking though.

[Python-ideas] Re: [Suspected Spam]"Curated" package repo?

2023-07-05 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 at 17:12, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > 4) A self contained repository of packages that you could point > > pip to -- it would contain only the packages that had met some > > sort of "vetting" criteria. In theory, anyone could run it, but > > a stamp of approva