<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 11, 2014, at 11:11 AM, Marcus Smith <<a href="mailto:qwcode@gmail.com" class="">qwcode@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">> Public index servers SHOULD NOT allow the use of local version identifiers for uploaded distributions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm thinking this should just say "PyPI" and not "Public" broadly.</div>
<div class="">The point is for local versions not to confused with the one authoritative upstream version sequence, not that it couldn't be "public".</div><div class="">I can imagine locally versioned distributions needing to be distributed or available "publicly" (e.g. for a specific platform or system).</div>
<div class="">Considering the recommendation to use the "python.integrator" extension, which is generally about "downstream" modification and redistribution, it seems inconsistent to say that this redistribution couldn't be public.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">We actually have a definition for Public Index Server, It’s ""Public index</div><div class="">servers" are index servers which allow distribution uploads from untrusted third</div><div class="">parties. The Python Package Index [3] is a public index server.”. This is</div><div class="">defined in PEP 426.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">But thinking about it, that doesn't particularly match it either, because</div><div class="">something like binstar allows this, but should allow local versions.</div></div><br class=""><div class="">
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