On 08.05.2014 15:57, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On 8 May 2014 23:39, M.-A. Lemburg mal@egenix.com wrote:
However, for some reason there's a strong resistance against doing this, which I frankly don't understand.
Because we're taking responsibility for the end-to-end user experience of PyPI, and are expressly trying to eliminate the elements of that user experience that are beyond the control of the PyPI admin team
Oh, I guess you'd have to rewrite most of those 40k packages then :-)
Seriously, the word "eliminate" in there does not sit well with our goals for openness. External services like github, sourceforge, bitbucket, dropbox, cdns, etc. are not per-se evil and unreliable.
pip should acknowledge this and not try to "eliminate" all hosting services in the world per default [sound of Empire Strikes Back theme] ;-)
(even the question of "does this software actually work?" is in our sights if you consider a long enough time span). That's hard enough with just a couple of service providers (Fastly and Rackspace) in the mix - it quickly becomes impossible if every new dependency from an installation request adds a new point of failure.
Like I said: the best option is to use a local directory which only contains packages files that you have inspected and actually trust :-)
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