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

[Kai Diefenbach]

On 2012-02-06 21:58:11 +0000, Terry Reedy said:

> On 2/6/2012 3:17 PM, Andreas Jung wrote:
>> My point about this: if a person does not want
>> to host its package on PyPi than it should stay away from PyPI.
> 
> The Python Package Index was originally just that: a package *INDEX*,
> aiming to be a complete index.

If a listed package is not available (because an external server is 
down) the index is broken.

Kai