[Catalog-sig] Deprecate External Links

[Jesse Noller]

Marc Andre: I'm cc'ing Van: can you explain why the pypi terms are a bummer so we can see if there is actually an issue to be resolved or a matter of taste?

We need to protect the foundation while preserving author rights - but I don't want one user / subset dictating how we evolve the technology.

Jesse 

On Mar 1, 2013, at 4:24 AM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> On 01.03.2013 10:02, 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 ...
>> """
> 
> Correct, with a total of over 100MB per release. However, the above
> quote is slightly incorrect: I did not say "I won't do that", just
> that there are issues with doing this:
> 
> * It currently takes too long uploading that many files to
>  PyPI. This causes a problem, since in order to start the upload,
>  we have to register the release on PyPI, which tools will then
>  immediately find. However, during the upload time, they won't
>  necessarily find the right files to download and then fail.
> 
>  The proposed pull mechanism (see
>  http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPI/DownloadMetaDataProposal)
>  would work around this problem: tools would simply go to
>  our servers in case they can't find the files on PyPI.
> 
> * PyPI doesn't allow us to upload two egg files with the same
>  name: we have to provide egg files for UCS2 Python builds and
>  UCS4 Python builds, since easy_install/setuptools/pip don't
>  differentiate between the two variants. This is the main
>  reason why we're hosting our own PyPI-style indexes, one for
>  UCS2 and the other for UCS4 builds:
>  https://downloads.egenix.com/python/index/ucs2/
>  https://downloads.egenix.com/python/index/ucs4/
> 
> * I'm not sure whether we want to import our crypto packages
>  to the US, so for a subset of the files, we'd probably
>  continue to use our servers in Germany.
> 
>  Again, with the above proposal, this shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> * Ihe PyPI terms are a bummer for us, but this can be fixed,
>  I guess.
> 
> If we can resolve the issues, we'd have no problem having the
> files mirrored on PyPI.
> 
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