[Catalog-sig] Deprecate External Links

[holger krekel]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 10:02 +0100, Reinout van Rees wrote:
> On 28-02-13 21:08, holger krekel wrote:
> >>I have seen that position in this discussion ("I have to upload 120
> >>>files per release, so I won't do that", for instance).
> 
> >haven't seen that.
> 
> Marc-Andre Lemburg said this, which I took to mean 120 uploads per release:
> 
> """
> However, taking our egenix-mx-base package as example, we have
> 120 distribution files for every single release. Uploading those
> to PyPI would not only take long, but also ...
> """

Ah ok, thanks.  Didn't interpret Marc-Andre's post as claiming that 
downloads/homepage crawling is a good idea, though.  Just that there
has been reasons not to upload things which need to be addressed,
especially the need for enough storage space.

best,
holger

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