[Catalog-sig] Use user-specific site-packages by default?

[Jesse Noller]

On Feb 5, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
>> 1. Packages should only be installed from the given package indexes.
>> No scraping of websites as at least easy_install/buildout does, no
>> downloading from external download links. A deprecation period for
>> this of a couple of months, to give package authors the chance to
>> upload their packages is probably necessary.
> PyPI will need to change for this to happen realistically if I recall. There is a 
> hard limit on how large of a distribution can be uploaded to PyPI and there
> are, if I recall, valid distributions which are larger than that.
> 
> Personally I want the installers to only install from PyPI so my suggestion
> if this is something that (the proverbial) we want to do, PyPI should gain
> some notion of a soft limit for distribution upload (to prevent against
> DoS) with the ability to increase that size limit for specific projects who
> can file a ticket w/ PyPI to have their limit increased.

I strongly concur; however this does mean I will need to work with the board to procure additional storage or we will need to take the monthly storage hit and push it to s3 or another CSP.

I only see the latter possible if we can broker a highly discounted deal with a CSP such as rack space as the bandwidth costs alone would be painful


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