7 Nov
2009
7 Nov
'09
6:12 p.m.
On Nov 7, 2009, at 6:57 AM, Andreas Jung wrote:
- no more external hosting of packages. If people want their packages listed on Pypi, they should be required to upload their packages on PyPI (no more issues with non-available external server, no more issues with mirroring external servers, no more issues with wrong download URLs within package metadata)
Amen! Externally hosted packages are a royal PITA and it makes it so much harder to automatically install dependencies. This field should at the least be marked in the Distutils docs with a big "DEPRECATED: DO NOT USE" note.