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

[Nick Coghlan]

On 15 May 2014 20:44, "Daniele Sluijters" <daniele.sluijters at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> 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)?

Even RHEL/CentOS 7 don't include pip in the base OS & EPEL can be upgraded.

However, even with that, the server side links may still need to stick
around for a while longer to account for the various distro upgrade cycles.

Cheers,
Nick.

>
> 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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>
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> Daniele Sluijters
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