On Oct 11, 2014, at 7:48 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12 October 2014 04:29, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
I plan to put the external repositories (and the commands needed to use them) in the UI for PyPI. I suppose I should put that in the PEP as well, I was more focused on defining the API differences and the changes.
I forgot to mention, one other thing I thought about, we could move the current external links to external repositories automatically. I’m not sure if this is a good idea because on some projects that will end up with a giant list of things that a user would be suggested to install. Perhaps it’d work to scan them for installable files and only move the ones where an installable file was discovered, though that could be error prone (for example right now bytereef.org is down, so we’d not discover any files there).
If I recall Holger's suggestion correctly, it was just to move the current "Download URL" links over, rather than the scraped links.
Hmm, I thought his suggestion was to just leave the existing links alone so that the existing pip/easy_installs would continue to function as they do now?