Benji York wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:40 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >> http://pypi.python.org/simple/zc.buildout/ >> >> BTW: what are all those bug links doing on the zc.buildout index page ? > > PyPI scrapes all the links from the long description; for many projects > that includes a change log with links to fixed bugs.
Isn't that dangerous ? AFAIK, setuptools would start opening all those URLs and might find download files which are not necessarily under full control of the author, e.g. anyone could add a comment to a bug report or wiki page with a link to an egg file on some rogue server. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jun 17 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2010-07-19: EuroPython 2010, Birmingham, UK 31 days to go ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig