[Distutils] [Catalog-sig] [distutils] make the storage of the password optional in .pypirc

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:07 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> Or better yet, supported scp.  Then the upload/register process would be
>> reduced to just scp-ing a distro to pypi.  The server could read
>> meta-data from the distro, register the release, if necessary, and put
>> the distro in the right place.
>
> That wouldn't fit too well with the existing "register" and "upload"
> commands, I think.

+1

and in any case those commands should stay compatible with the current
mechanism and
let people store the password in the pypirc file if they want to, and
use https authentication.

Imho a scp/ssh protocol should be implemented in a new set of commands,


Regards
Tarek

>
> Regards,
> Martin
>



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