On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20 March 2013 18:29, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: >> Why can't unofficial binaries just use a separate index? e.g. Christoph can >> just make an index with his binaries. >> >> This solution also works well if someone wants to maintain a curated PyPI. > > The only real issue I know of is hosting. I've thought about doing > this myself, but don't have (free) hosting space I could use, and I > don't really feel like paying for and setting something up on spec. I > could host the files somewhere like bitbucket, but that feels like an > abuse for any substantial number of packages. > > I presume Christoph doesn't publish his binaries as an index because > wininst installers are typically downloaded and installed > manually.Although AIUI, easy_install could use them if they were in > index format. > > But you're right, people *can* do that. > Paul.
If we know who to ask we can get hosting (not my area of expertise). _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
