On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 09:27:50 UTC, sigod wrote:
On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 08:02:51 UTC, mahdi wrote:
On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 06:10:17 UTC, Chris Wright
wrote:
[...]
The aim is to make package distribution easier and more
straightforward. If someone has done some development on his
local machine and wants to distribute it, it's better not to
force him to create a repo on Github or ... .
And you end up creating your own repository hosting. Or you
would allow users to not use (D)VCS. Which will end up as a
nightmare.
Well, not necessarily. The benefit of this method is that it
separates source code hosting (local, github, ...) from
distribution.
This is the strategy that is followed in Python (PyPI) and Perl
(CPAN) community.
