[Distutils] Other ideas from today's packaging meetup at EuroPython

[Chris Withers]

On 24/07/2014 17:44, Daniel Holth wrote:
> Also, reject uploads that are not released under a DFSG license

What's a DFSG license>

> or lack
> man pages.

Are you serious?

Chris

>
> On Jul 24, 2014 11:57 AM, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io
> <mailto:donald at stufft.io>> wrote:
>
>     On July 24, 2014 at 7:28:55 AM, Richard Jones
>     (r1chardj0n3s at gmail.com <mailto:r1chardj0n3s at gmail.com>) wrote:
>>     Several great ideas came out of today's meetup. Some of those I'll
>>     leave to the proponents themselves to post about, but a couple of
>>     little nuggets for thought:
>>
>>     1. reject wheel uploads in the absence of an sdist in the index
>>     (the linux guys were really happy about that as a proposal ;)
>
>     This is gonna make openstack sad I think… They were relying on the
>     fact that pip prior to 1.4 didn’t install Wheels, and pip 1.4+ has
>     the pre-releases are excluded by default logic to publish
>     pre-releases safely to PyPI.
>
>     I’m not generally opposed though. Just stating that this will
>     prevent that “trick” from working.
>
>>
>>     2. add a system-wide configuration option to pip etc. so that
>>     there could be a system-wide override of the package index to use
>
>     Yea this was already on my list of things to do when I refactor the
>     configuration stuff to use locations which are more in line with
>     what the OS norms are (XDG on *nix, ~/Library on OSX, %AppData%
>     stuff on Windows).
>
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