[Distutils] People want CPAN :-)

[Kevin Teague]

On Nov 7, 2009, at 6:57 AM, Andreas Jung wrote:

>
> - no more external hosting of packages. If people
>   want their packages listed on Pypi, they should
>   be required to upload their packages on PyPI
>   (no more issues with non-available external server,
>   no more issues with mirroring external servers,
>   no more issues with wrong download URLs within
>   package metadata)
>


Amen!

Externally hosted packages are a royal PITA and it makes it so much  
harder to automatically install dependencies. This field should at the  
least be marked in the Distutils docs with a big "DEPRECATED: DO NOT  
USE" note.