[Catalog-sig] Do we really need this list?

[ssteinerX@gmail.com]

On Nov 17, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Chris Withers wrote:

> ssteinerX at gmail.com wrote:
>> "The Python Catalog SIG is the forum for development and discussion  
>> of indexes of Python packages."
>> Seems to me that distutils-sig is about the tools that put stuff up  
>> into the catalogs that need to be discussed on catalog-sig.
>> The catalog(s) is/are not the tools for creating things to go into  
>> it/them.
>
> That may be, but discussions of one seem to invariably involve  
> discussion of the other. It seems not many people know about catalog- 
> sig anyway so the discussions end up on distutils-sig or, worse yet,  
> python-dev...

Discussions of whether you use Open-ID or whatever, for example, don't  
belong on distutils or python-dev.

It's an issue relating to authentication to a catalog and doesn't have  
doodly to do with building distributions or developing python per se.

S