On 2010-06-11, at 1:56 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> If you are willing to invest *a lot* of time, then it seems that rewriting 
> PyPI in Django would make a lot of people happy, because
> they claim they can't contribute to the current code base because
> they don't understand that. I don't want to do such a rewrite on
> my own because I *do* understand the code base (despite not having written it 
> in the first place, so I think that if you really want
> to contribute, you can learn how it works); it also violates Joel
> Spolsky's principle of never ever doing rewrites.

FYI: I just happened to stumble upon what claims to be a "re-implementation of 
PyPI" in Django:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/djangopypi/0.4

-srid
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