[Catalog-sig] The purpose(s) of PYPI

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Second, I certainly meant no threat.  We need a working index to use
> with setuptools.  I would hope, in the spirit of open source to
> collaborate on that.  A basic questions that needs to be answered is
> whether to use PyPI or to build something else.

Ok. For this question, there is a seemingly-obvious answer: use PyPI.
Why on earth would somebody want to build something else?

Regards,
Martin