[Distutils] Immutable Files on PyPI

[Donald Stufft]

On September 30, 2014 at 5:19:50 AM, Nick Coghlan (ncoghlan at gmail.com) wrote:
> On 30 Sep 2014 19:06, "M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:
> > You're regularly bringing up this argument.
> >
> > Let's just be fair here: external hosting of packages has been made so
> > user unfriendly in recent pip releases, that this has pretty much
> > become a non-option for anyone who wants to create a user friendly
> > package installation environment.
> >
> > pip is unfortunately using the same kind of
> > --no-one-will-want-to-use-this-option-because-its-too-long
> > approach as setuptools/easy_install has done in the past to force
> > people into installing packages as eggs rather than installing
> > the packages in the standard write to site-packages dir way.
> >
> > The end result is the same: users will not want to go
> > through those extra hoops and thus packages not hosted on PyPI
> > itself will be regarded as broken (because they don't install using
> > the standard method; not because they are really broken).
> 
> I personally think pip needs a virtualenv friendly equivalent to
> yum.repos.d or conda channels to improve the multi-index experience.
> 
> This is a solved problem from my perspective, we just need folks willing to
> spend the time making the case for the proven solution, and adapting it to
> the PyPI ecosystem.

In pip 1.5.x (current latest release) people can add additional indexes (or
replace PyPI all together) on a per user basis. In pip 6.0 (next release) that
still exists, and in addition it also includes a global configuration file
for the entire machine and a per virtual env configuration file.

About the only thing it doesn't support is a directory of files ala
apt.sources.d/*.list.

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