[Catalog-sig] Deprecate External Links

[Donald Stufft]

On Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Reinout van Rees wrote:
> On 28-02-13 10:43, holger krekel wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 06:38 +0100, Andreas Jung wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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?
> > 
> 
> 
> The position Andreas probably means is projects that *do* advertise 
> themselves on pypi, but don't put their files there.
> 
> I have seen that position in this discussion ("I have to upload 120 
> files per release, so I won't do that", for instance).
> 
> Some arguments might be valid, but these projects *are*, taken as one 
> group, actively breaking pip and buildout regularly.
> 
> So I agree with Andreas. I don't really care about "the arguments pulled 
> out every time". Effectively actively breaking pip and buildout is bad, 
> period.
> 
> 
> Reinout
> 
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https://crate.io/externally-hosted/ A list of things that have no files hosted on
PyPI but have a release. This doesn't include things that uploads sometimes
but not everytime (argparse for example the latest releases have not been
uploaded to PyPI).
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