Re: [Distutils] Invalid Packages

2018-02-19 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 18 February 2018 at 18:06, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 18 February 2018 at 03:48, Lele Gaifax wrote: >> Nathaniel Smith writes: >> >>> What do you mean by a "spam package"? I guess it might be covered >>> under this section: >>> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0541/#invalid-projects >>> >>

Re: [Distutils] Invalid Packages

2018-02-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 18 February 2018 at 03:48, Lele Gaifax wrote: > Nathaniel Smith writes: > >> What do you mean by a "spam package"? I guess it might be covered >> under this section: >> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0541/#invalid-projects >> >> -n > > Today lots of packages like the following appeared

Re: [Distutils] Invalid Packages

2018-02-17 Thread Lele Gaifax
Nathaniel Smith writes: > What do you mean by a "spam package"? I guess it might be covered > under this section: > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0541/#invalid-projects > > -n Today lots of packages like the following appeared on PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Kim-Kardashian-Hollywo

Re: [Distutils] Invalid Packages

2018-02-17 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 2:39 PM, Matt Gieger wrote: > I would like to see a clause added to the "Ivalid Package" section of PEP541 > that allows some mechanism for other pypi users to mark a package as spam. > Every day i see more spam packages added to pypi and currently the only way > to get the

Re: [Distutils] Invalid Packages

2018-02-16 Thread Wayne Werner
I don't know if it would be worth the effort, but I wonder if a Stack Overflow-esque rep system for packages would work. In a perfect world, I'm sure, but maybe not so much in ours. -W On Feb 16, 2018 6:24 PM, "Matt Gieger" wrote: > I would like to see a clause added to the "Ivalid Package" sec