On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Martijn Faassen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/01/2012 01:40 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: >> >> On 1/31/2012 6:43 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: >>> >>> I don't think anyone is arguing that it's not occasionally useful. The >>> question to answer is the occasional usefulness worth the risks that >>> come with it. In my opinion the small utility (being able to correct a >>> borked packaging job) is not worth the risks to both my applications >>> stability, and the security of my entire system. >> >> >> The question is whether, on each issue, PyPI should be optimized for >> authors (who provide their modules for free) or for users. Both choices >> are defensible. However, if all choices are made in favor of users, >> there will very likely be fewer things uploaded or even listed, which is >> not favorable for users. > > > I don't think it's a simple dichotomy. If the authors follow certain best > practices they might retain more users, say. And if system is great for > users and has lots of them, that motivates authors to work with it.
Well said. Thanks. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
