[Catalog-sig] Deprecate External Links

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 28.02.2013 07:39, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sometimes you need to break things. The goal is to do it with ample
>> warning and migration time so that people have a chance to move
>> to the new way of doing things.
>>
>> Again, I am not suggesting we delete all external links immediately, just
>> disable new ones. Removing old ones will come later.
> 
> This thread is long enough that I'm not sure on where to weigh in.
> Here seems appropriate enough.
> 
> 1. The next generation metadata infrastructure will NOT support
> external hosting of files indexed on PyPI - if you don't upload the
> archive files to PyPI, they won't be included in the next generation
> metadata. If you want external hosting, you will need to run a
> separate index (this is similar to the yum model - you can host files
> wherever you want, but you need to run "yum createrepo" yourself to
> generate the metadata, and instruct users on how to get their
> installers to retrieve your metadata. The big difference between PyPI
> and the yum model is that the default index still won't be curated at
> all, so there's no review process to get through if you want to use
> it, thus less need for external hosting).

Could you elaborate on this ?

AFAIK, the metadata only works on package names, regardless of where
an installer finds them.

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