Hi
On 8/1/12 2:09 PM, Eric P. Mangold wrote:
[snip]
Debian et. all solve this with signed packages. I would be happy to download
Debian packages from http://pythonpackages.com all day long :)
That's good to know, and probably I direction I'd like to head in.
To be clear: I want to do any-useful-thing-I-can (within the
ballpark) in order to start alleviating pain points for folks today.
Cool,
Well one thing would be to make all of your source code open-source, if that is
not already the case(?)
I can imagine wanting to run some pythonpackaging.com infrastructure outside of
pythonpackages.com
I <3 open source and it could happen, but it hasn't yet (for various
reasons). I have a FAQ about it here:
-
http://docs.pythonpackages.com/en/latest/faq.html#is-pythonpackages-com-open-source
Debian also rely upon trusted build machines. But they are a more-or-less open
organization with open review of what goes on.
That said, I don't have a problem with people placing their trust in you. I
don't
know you, and don't have any opinion on it to be honest. You're probably a good
guy ;)
I would suggest working toward BEING a better PyPI mirror. Build
the infrastructure necessary for people to publish python SOURCE packages,
as they are, to PyPI, to pythonpackages.com, etc. etc. There is a lot of value
to be added there.
Actually I'm mostly relying on the crate.io project (Donald Stufft)
for this. I don't want pythonpackages.com to be a PyPI mirror,
because other people are already doing this. The only related
feature I'm considering (because folks have asked for it) is private
PyPIs (something like index.pythonpackages.com only persistent).
Build tools to make python packaging easy. On your laptop. On the cloud.
Wherever.
Open SOURCE is good like that.
Indeed! Currently working on a Windows version of pythonpackages.com
to build Windows binaries (currently it only builds on Ubuntu).
The key point I was making was that SOURCE is good, because then it's not just "some
cloud service"
that could be here today and gone tomorrow - It's actually something people can
rely on moving
forward. (in addition to being a service you run).
I don't disagree, but I'm also not convinced that it has to be that way
to be successful.
Alex
Alex
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Regards,
Eric Mangold
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