[Distutils] Reviving PEP 470 - Removing External Hosting support on PyPI

[Ben Finney]

Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> writes:

> Removal of the “External Repository Discover” feature. […] I think
> that the feature itself is a bad feature and I think it presents a
> poor experience for people who want to use it, so I’ve removed it from
> the PEP and instead focused the PEP on explicitly recommending that
> all installers should implement the ability to specify multiple
> repositories and deprecating and removing the ability for finding
> anything but files hosted by the repository itself on /simple/.

+1, thank you for this improvement.

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Ben Finney