[Distutils] Python people want CPAN and how the latter came about

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Ben Finney wrote:
> "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:
> 
>> The benefits are not to the package users, clearly.
> 
> That should immediately make us suspicious, then.
> 
> If PyPI is for anything, surely it is for the package recipients *more
> than* for package developers.

I thought so when adding voting and comments to PyPI. Boy was I wrong.

> That isn't a good argument. By the same logic, PyPI should not reject
> *any* upload, to avoid “forcing” uploaders to do extra work.

PyPI's rejection of certain uploads is primarily to prevent spam from
being uploaded.
It has nothing to do with setting quality standards of some kind.

Regards,
Martin