On Nov 7, 2009, at 6:57 AM, Andreas Jung wrote:
- no more external hosting of packages. If people
want their packages listed on Pypi, they should
be required to upload their packages on PyPI
(no more issues with non-available external server,
no more issues with mirroring external servers,
no more issues with wrong download URLs within
package metadata)
Amen!
Externally hosted packages are a royal PITA and it makes it so much
harder to automatically install dependencies. This field should at the
least be marked in the Distutils docs with a big "DEPRECATED: DO NOT
USE" note.
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