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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 31.08.2015 11:05, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> On 31 Aug 2015, at 10:44, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>>
>> There's also another difference: Linux repos are usually managed
>> by a single entity owning the packages, very much unlike PyPI which
>> is merely a hosting platform and index to point to packages owned
>> by the authors.
> 
> That is probably true for public repositories. However, there are also a huge number of organisations who have internal repositories for deb/rpm packages, and many of those contain third party packages. I have a couple, and most of them contain a combination of our own packages as well as collection of backports and custom packages for software that hasn’t been packaged by anyone else.

True, but for those, I think explicitly adding the index URL to
the package installer search path is the better approach.

Or perhaps I misunderstood and you meant something like:

"If the package is not in my internal repo, I don't want
pip to look it up on PyPI or anywhere else."

That's a valid use case, but it seems orthogonal to the
question of making public repositories for specific packages
more easily configurable for package manager users.

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