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[holger krekel]

Hi Philip, all,

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 14:16 -0500, PJ Eby wrote:
> The key to making this transition isn't creating elaborate new
> standards for the tools, it's *creating new tools for the standards*.

If we can find a way to improve PyPI and not require the world to
change first, that's a big plus in my book as well.

> Point is, this entire thing can be done correctly at the PyPI end and
> work with the existing API of the download tools.

I think so as well.  Will suggest a transition model in a 
new top-level thread, trying to follow this idea.

best,
holger