On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:08:47 -0800, Ethan Furman wrote: [...] >> "maybe policing uploads is worse than cluttering PyPI's disk space and >> RSS feed with dumb 1 KB packages." (Matt Chaput) >> >> I'd drop the "maybe". > > It's hard enough finding what one wants without having to wade through > crap. PyPI is not the place for it.
I agree. But who gets to choose which packages are "serious" enough to deserve to be on PyPI? Or good enough? The cost of allowing anyone the freedom to publish their work is that some published work will be crap. Besides, I find it hard to believe that the search facilities on PyPI are so bad that there would be any searches that come up with "girlfriend.py" or "car.py" as false positives. Seriously, the over-reaction here is something that has to be seen to be believed. The original complaint is over a couple of entries in an RSS feed and showing up on the front page of PyPI, perhaps a dozen words in total. The reaction has been thousands of words arguing back and forth. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list