-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 kiorky wrote: > > Lennart Regebro a écrit : >> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:28, kiorky <kio...@cryptelium.net> wrote: >>> Why forcing them ? >>> How about a cronjob or something like that which find packages without >>> distribution and get from there all distributions possible on their relative >>> homepages and mirror them on Pypi ? >> Somebody (including a bot) uploading a package is quite different from >> *requiring* uploads, IMO. >> >> But uploading to PyPI is for 99.999% of packages so easy that if it's >> not done there may be a reason why they don't want to. > > Unless they don't know how to do. > >> We may choose to ignore that, but we can only do it for licenses we know >> allow it, > 99% of pypi packages. > >> which again means that there may be packages listed on PyPI that are >> not hosted on PyPI. >> >> I personally don't understand why third-party services would need this. >> > > That's quite out of scope which what i wanted to spot but to answear: > > The only problem is with licenses which constrain redistribution. > We can have logic around trove classifiers to filter them out. > If the authors miss the trove, that's their fault. > > What i would like to see is just to have most of the distributions on Pypi > because by experience, pypi get less offline that thirdparty mirrors, and i > can > set mirrors of pypi easyly.
I would say that having a package author *not* upload the distributions is their right, but I would likely avoid using such a package, just on that basis. Note that I build per-project mirrors of the pacakges I use anyway, in part not to depend on either PyPI or other download sources for supporting apps in production: I just prefer to use only freely-distributable software. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAks0RnIACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ61FACgnE0jgLx5jaHTQzMofH+VyT5I YBMAn079ghQ2lLcOwUraISeew81Pe9jt =gUew -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
