[Distutils] Outdated packages on pypi

[Nick Coghlan]

On 14 July 2016 at 05:04, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 This way, an outdated package can be moved to another repo without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.

Work that Linux distros already do, hence ideas like
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Env_and_Stacks/Projects/LanguageSpecificRepositories
and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Env_and_Stacks/Projects/PackageReviewProcessRedesign

Convincing Linux distros to change their review processes to be less
precious about package formats is a long political battle to fight,
but it's more sustainable in the long run than trying to build *new*
curation focused communities for each different language ecosystem
that pops up :)

Cheers,
Nick.

P.S. The conda community would be another example of a collaborative
project curation effort, albeit one closer to the traditional Linux
distro model (where review is accompanied by a change in packaging
format)

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