<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 14:55, Steven D'Aprano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@pearwood.info">steve@pearwood.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:20:55 pm Patrick Gerken wrote:<br>
> Not putting the source release on pypi is just one indicator of<br>
> crappy software.<br>
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</div>Yeah, like that infamous example of crappy software, Numpy.<br>
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<a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpy/1.4.1" target="_blank">http://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpy/1.4.1</a><br></blockquote><div><br>I am sorry if I offended you. I do not call every software that does not release sources<br>
on pypi crappy. I also don't call numpy crappy.<br><br>Now, please tell me what you would do if sourceforge changes its url and returns a<br>404 on the old download page. Would you update all release informations?<br>
If not, the next time I run a buildout where the configuration requires numpy in an old version<br>and the download link is broken, my buildout breaks too. And there might be reasons why<br>I stick to a specific older version.<br>
Thats what I would like to avoid.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br> Patrick<br></div></div>