[Distutils] PEP 470 - Using Multi Index Support for External to PyPI Package File Hosting

[Daniele Sluijters]

Has anyone considered what this will mean for people on distributions
that ship older pip versions that can't be upgraded outside of the
release cycle (like Debian and Redhat)?

On 15 May 2014 10:09, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 May 2014 00:03, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I’ve just published a draft of PEP 470 - Using Multi Index Support for
>>> External to PyPI Package File Hosting
>>>
>>> You can see this online at http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0470/ or
>>> read below
>>>
>>
>> For the record: I reviewed Donald's initial draft of this PEP and did some
>> light copy editing when adding it to the PEPs repo, so this PEP can be taken
>> as reflecting my perspective as well.
>
> FWIW, +1 from me. The model is clean and understandable, and uses the
> existing --extra-index-url feature in pip, so we're not introducing an
> untried approach (with all the potential for getting the UI wrong that
> implies).
>
> Setting up an index is pretty straightforward for anyone already doing
> their own hosting, and people using places like Sourceforge where
> adding a static index might be problematic, could host one on their
> project's pythonhosted.org area. So it's hard to see the cost of
> maintaining an index as a blocker for projects.
>
> Paul.
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Daniele Sluijters