On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:51 AM, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote: > At 04:18 PM 7/5/2011 +0200, Martijn Faassen wrote: >> >> That's why I asked >> whether PyPI is primarily a hosting site for developers (as opposed to >> something like Debian or Wikipedia which have notions about a >> collaborative effort of some kind, and care about preserving history). > > It's right there in the name: Python Package *Index*. Â In other words, it's > an index of packages. Â Hosting the packages is optional. Â Heck, a package > actually having any *code* to download at all is optional, since you can > list a package you merely intend to develop. Â Or you might just have a > revision control link, etc.
Even if you buy that PyPI is *just* an index, when someone removes a release, they are removing the *index* data for it. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
