On Oct 3, 2014, at 10:29 AM, Wichert Akkerman
wrote: On 03 Oct 2014, at 16:24, Nick Coghlan
wrote: 2. Easily allow package authors to tell PyPI "my releases are hosted <here>" and have that advertised in such a way that tools can clearly communicate it to users, without silently introducing unexpected dependencies on third party services. I haven’t read the PEP, so this might be a stupid remark, but: is that needed, when a package author can also say something like “add my repository to your system with pip —add-repository <url>” ?
Wichert.
So it’s not strictly required, and for pip versions less than 6.0 that’s essentially what will be happening. However providing that mechanism makes the discovery story a lot nicer. Instead of ``pip install foo`` coming back with a “I can’t find any downloads” error, it can come back with a “I can’t find any downloads, but here is the repositories that the author says they are using”. Basically it’s an affordance to make the UX of an external repository better. --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA