[Catalog-sig] Deprecate External Links

[holger krekel]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 19:34 +0100, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:34 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> > I'm not saying that it's not a good idea to host packages on PyPI,
> > but forcing the community into doing this is not a good idea.
> 
> I still don't understand why not. The only reasons I've seen are
> "Because they don't want to" or "because they don't trust PyPI". And
> in the latter case I'm assuming they wouldn't use PyPI at all.
> 
> And of course, nobody is forcing anyone, just like nobody is forcing
> you to use PyPI. :-)

I understood there is the idea to disable external links within a couple
of months.  That does break backward compatibility in a considerable way.

holger