Jacob Kaplan-Moss <ja...@jacobian.org> writes: > But why not do something a little less sensible, but a lot more > useful? If the package is hosted externally grab a copy and host it > locally. Then pip and friends can fall back to downloading from pypi > if the original download URL is broken.
That would require that PyPI accept packages only if the license terms allow PyPI to redistribute the work. I would support such a policy, but I think the PyPI administrator does not. I'd love to know otherwise. -- \ “The Vatican is not a state.… a state must have people. There | `\ are no Vaticanians.… No-one gets born in the Vatican except by | _o__) an unfortunate accident.” —Geoffrey Robertson, 2010-09-18 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
