On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:00 PM, holger krekel <hol...@merlinux.eu> wrote: > To summarize, having pip/easy_install report red warnings and requiring > to pass a "--htmlscrape=PROJ1,PROJ2" option or so is a good way to > communicate, removing the ability is not, at this point.
+1 I'm a fan of updating the client side tools (both upload and download) to complain if files are not hosted on PyPI, and perhaps even requiring switches or configuration settings to say "yes, external downloads are OK for projects X, Y, and Z"). I'm *not* a fan of changing the way PyPI handles external links, except perhaps for some of the suggestions PJE made about cleaning up some aspects of what PyPI chooses to publish for old releases. I'd prefer to leave the "you can't do it any more" step for the next generation secure metadata distribution infrastructure (so the installation tools will be able to fall back to the legacy infrastructure for projects that haven't updated yet). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
