[Distutils] Outdated packages on pypi

[Paul Moore]

On 13 July 2016 at 19:08, Dima Tisnek <dimaqq at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd rather see something similar to Linux distributions where there's
> a curated repository "core" and a few semi-official, like "extra" and
> "community," and for some, "testing."
> A name foobar resolves to core/foobar-<latest> if that exists, and if
> not some subset of other repositories is used.
> This way, an outdated package can be moved to another repo without
> breaking install base.
>
> In fact, curation without namespaces will already be pretty good.

Who would take on the work of maintaining a curated repository? To do
anything like a reasonable job would be a *lot* of work.

Paul