[Catalog-sig] PEP 243 - Module Repository Upload Mechanism

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
31 Oct 2002 21:28:11 +0100


Thomas Heller <thomas.heller@ion-tof.com> writes:

> The user, however, runs
> 
>   python setup.py sdist --sign --submit
> 
> and then is required to enter his passphrase. He might be concerned
> where it goes...

I think this is fine. The potential distutils users won't just type a
password if some program asks for it. So the documentation needs to
explain what the password is good for, and how precisely the
processing works.

Regards,
Martin