On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 02:19:52PM -0400, Alex Clark wrote: > 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 Well since you're a commercial service I can understand your reluctance. :) > >>>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. >
Well good luck with that. I think you should consider open-sourcing, and consider the on-prem market. Given those two things, I could even imagine myself as a customer. Cheers, -E _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
