[Distutils] Need for respect (was: PEP 438, pip and --allow-external)

[Noah Kantrowitz]

On May 14, 2014, at 12:44 PM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> PyPI is still mainly the Python registry for mapping package
> names to URLs and descriptions.

Sorry, going to have to stop you here. This, and all your conclusions based on this assumption, are flat out incorrect. You are far far far in the minority of people that think this is what PyPI is. It was this at one point, but few old-timers are still around to remember those days and new users have very different expectations driven by the cites linux package servers/systems as well as tools like rubygems and cpan.

--Noah

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