[Distutils] How Python can have CPAN.

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Dec 27 12:16:45 CET 2009


> There are, as far as I can figure out, around 150 individuals to
> contact. That's enough people that a questionnaire might be useful,
> with answer that we guess are going to be the common ones. Like:
> 
> Why did you not upload to PyPI, you bum?
> 1. I didn't know you could upload to PyPI.
> 2. I don't want anyone but my servers to have the downloads, thank you. [Why?]
> 3. My companies policy does not allow it. [Why?]
> 4. The distutils "sdist upload" procedure doesn't work for me. [Why?]
> 5. Other. [What?]
> 
> But there is a download URL metadata. You could have at least filled
> that in, lazy person!
> 1. I didn't know you could.
> 2. Other [What?]

One answer option should be "there is nothing I can release at this point".

Regards,
Martin



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