On 20 March 2013 18:29, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
Why can't unofficial binaries just use a separate index? e.g. Christoph can just make an index with his binaries.
This solution also works well if someone wants to maintain a curated PyPI.
The only real issue I know of is hosting. I've thought about doing this myself, but don't have (free) hosting space I could use, and I don't really feel like paying for and setting something up on spec. I could host the files somewhere like bitbucket, but that feels like an abuse for any substantial number of packages. I presume Christoph doesn't publish his binaries as an index because wininst installers are typically downloaded and installed manually.Although AIUI, easy_install could use them if they were in index format. But you're right, people *can* do that. Paul.