[Catalog-sig] What is the point of pythonpackages.com?

[Stefan Krah]

Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com> wrote:
> original poster's choice to host somewhere else, but it can indeed be  
> inconvenient to quite a few users of PyPI if a package is not hosted on  
> PyPI.

I don't see any inconvenience since bytereef.org has a comparable
uptime to python.org.

I've listed my reasons for not hosting on PyPI earlier here:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/catalog-sig/2011-May/003746.html


Stefan Krah