[Distutils] The Update Framework, integrate into PyPI?

[David Cournapeau]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Thomas Güttler <guettliml at thomas-guettler.de
> wrote:

> I read the RoadMap (Thank you Marcus Smith) and came across this:
>
> > An effort to integrate PyPI with the “The Update Framework” (TUF). This
> is specified in PEP458
>
> I see a trend to immutable systems everywhere.


Not everywhere. Keep in mind that there are a *lot* of different usecases
for packaging/deployment. Not just web app, not just CLI tools, etc... For
example, it is common for modern end user applications to use an
auto-update feature (e.g. chrome).

David
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