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

[Tres Seaver]

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On 08/27/2015 07:51 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:

> This leaves the user feeling annoyed that we didn’t just search those 
> locations by default. I truly think it is a bad experience and I only 
> ever added it because I wanted the discussion to be over with and I
> was trying to placate people by giving them a bad feature

I don't understand the sensibility here:  an error message which tells me
"not hosted on PyPI, try 'pip...' instead" seems like a *good* UX to me:
 Having a tool which respectw its default policy ("trust only PyPI")
while giving me the information I need to off-road when needed is a good
balance.


Tres.
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