[Catalog-sig] Proposal for the bootstrap API

[Jacob Kaplan-Moss]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Generalising that to grant the ability to upload arbitrary bootstrap
> scripts to every project for no good reason is making a bad situation
> worse, for zero payoff. So let's not do that.

Completely agree. There's a legit need for the pip and buildout
bootstrap scripts to have a "good home", and I like the idea of making
PyPI that home. That means that these bootstrap scripts can benefit
from any future security improvements PyPI gets.

But there's no need to make it a general thing; make it a special
case, just for those projects. If other projects want similar special
treatment, they can ask. As a maintainer of Django I have no problem
with this; if we wanted a djangobootstrap.py I'd be completely OK
having to ask first.

Jacob

PS: If I do ever ask for that, ask me what I'm smoking and then say "no", OK?