On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:43, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: > The question that matters is how significant this effect is, not that > it happens. Optimizing the number of packages independently of any > other criteria does not make much sense.
Uploading to PyPI is so easy that almost everyone does it. Those who do not have a REASON for that. We should figure out that reason and FIX IT. You just want to say "no, we should not allow them to do that". That has *no* benefit and does not solve any problem. So there is no optimization here. This is not a question of weighing one good thing vs another conflicting good thing. > I think many people within > the group of disatisfied Pypi users would be happy to have less > packages for a better overall experience. Nobody has been able to explain why requiring file uploads would give a better overall experience. The argument for requiring uploads was that it was easier to mirror, and argument that I would claim is false in the first place. Nobody, before now, has claimed it give "an overall better experience", and I don't see how that would be the case. > If it were, nobody would make the argument about making things more > consistent for Pypi. The goal is to make Pypi better, and easy > mirroring as well as reliable experience is part of that. Yes, but uploading more file does not make mirroring of files easier. It is still a bogus argument. You can mirror PyPI files by mirroring the file structure. Yes, you will not get files that are not uploaded. But if you did, then it wouldn't be a mirror in the first place, but something else. Mirroring PyPI's metadata is apparently not very easy, and I agree that it should be. But uploading more files doesn't make mirroring of PyPI easier or harder, it just means you have more files, nothing else. -- Lennart Regebro: http://regebro.wordpress.com/ Python 3 Porting: http://python-incompatibility.googlecode.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
