On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Aaron Meurer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Monty Taylor <mord...@inaugust.com > (mailto:mord...@inaugust.com)> wrote: > > > > > > On 02/27/2013 02:47 PM, Aaron Meurer wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:37 AM, holger krekel <hol...@merlinux.eu > > > (mailto:hol...@merlinux.eu)> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 19:34 +0100, Lennart Regebro wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:34 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com > > > > > (mailto:m...@egenix.com)> wrote: > > > > > > I'm not saying that it's not a good idea to host packages on PyPI, > > > > > > but forcing the community into doing this is not a good idea. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I still don't understand why not. The only reasons I've seen are > > > > > "Because they don't want to" or "because they don't trust PyPI". And > > > > > in the latter case I'm assuming they wouldn't use PyPI at all. > > > > > > > > > > And of course, nobody is forcing anyone, just like nobody is forcing > > > > > you to use PyPI. :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I understood there is the idea to disable external links within a couple > > > > of months. That does break backward compatibility in a considerable way. > > > > > > > > holger > > > > > > But wouldn't this only be a change in pip/easy_install, not PyPI > > > itself? I suppose you could explicitly break the external links by > > > having them point to nothing if you are worried about the security or > > > if it's some performance issue (that would indeed be a bad > > > compatibility break, in case people are using those for other > > > purposes). Otherwise, if it's a problem, then just use the old > > > version of pip. > > > > > > > > > If we don't remove the feature from pypi itself, then it won't help the > > folks for whom its a problem, because there will be no incentive for the > > folks hosting their software that way to actually upload their stuff to > > PyPI - which means that client-side disabling of external_links is > > fairly likely to never be usable. > > > > > How would you remove it from PyPI itself? Would that just require > changing some urls, so that pip doesn't know where to find stuff any > more? > >
Modify the PyPI software to no longer link to those urls. > > Sorry if this is obvious. I'm not a pip/PyPI developer. Just a > package maintainer who has been irked several times by > pip's/PyPI's/easy_install's idiotic external links policy. > >
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