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

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Am 17.06.2010 09:39, schrieb Andreas Jung:
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> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
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>> IMO, it's a waste of energy: if a package is useless, just don't use it,
>> and be done. There are many packages on PyPI that are useless to me
>> despite having a source release.
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> "useless" is not the point. The "availability" matters - the
> availability of package must not depend externals servers other than an
> official PyPI server.

Why is that? You are talk about the Python Package *INDEX*. File hosting 
is an optional feature of the service.

Regards,
Martin