[Catalog-sig] V4 Pre-PEP: transition to release-file hosting on PYPI

[Nick Coghlan]

On 15 Mar 2013 16:16, "Carl Meyer" <carl at oddbird.net> wrote:
>
> tl;dr: I see your points, we'll change the PEP to allow clients to use
> hostnames instead of the rel attributes if they prefer.

I will veto any such change. Clients MUST NOT assume that the architecture
of the index service will be limited to a single host name, they must
process the explicit metadata provided by the index that indicates which
hosts the index controls.

Adding a "--trust-indices" flag to make this optional in setuptools would
be fine, but it seems perverse to trust every aspect of an index *except*
its claims to control additional hosts.

Regards,
Nick.
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