[Catalog-sig] Deprecate External Links

[holger krekel]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 06:38 +0100, Andreas Jung wrote:
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> +1 for the proposal
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> The complete discussion on this topic is once again absurd and bizarre.
> We are discussing the issue with externally hosted packages every year
> and the situation has not improved. Especially people using "buildout"
> encounter very regulary issues with external site being down - with the
> result that we can not install or update our installation.
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> I give a shit at the arguments pulled out every time by package
> maintainers using PyPI only for listing their packages. I am both
> annoyed and bothered by these people.

I didn't see such positions from package maintainers here.  In fact
i haven't seen anyone stepping up saying listing packages externally
is a great idea.  Could you point to those posts?

However, I have seen concerns about breaking many people's and
companies processes and thus thoughts on how to do a good transition.
I guess you don't want to communicate to package-users the way 
you do above to package maintainers.

best,
holger