[Catalog-sig] [Proposal] Registered packages must provide the source code distribution on PyPI

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
> 
>> I guess it's better to tell the package authors about your
>> use of their packages and offer them help in hosting their
>> packages on more reliable infrastructures.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> If that doesn't solve your problem, it's likely better
>> to either setup your own index to override the PyPI one
>> (should be easy to do in zc.buildout and AFAIK at least
>> Plone is already doing that), or you stop using
>> the package and look for alternatives.
> 
> Sorry - I disagree completely. As developer I am into developing
> software and not into building private infrastructure to get around the
> deficiencies of PyPI 

Well, we're trying to change those ...

> and the ignorance of some package maintainers
> caring about the needs of the developers using their packages.

... can't help with this, though.

Package authors typically have a wide range of motivations to
write and share software for others to use. They don't
necessarily share your views or see a need to fulfill your
particular requirements.

If you do have a business requirement to rely on their packages,
I'd suggest you'd ask those package authors for a support
contract. That would likely help them adapt to your needs ;-)

Back to your proposal: In your particular case, I don't see
how the proposal would have helped you - under the proposal,
the package would have been removed from the PyPI index,
so either way, there would have been no working automatic
access to the package download links.

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