[Catalog-sig] What is the point of pythonpackages.com?

[PJ Eby]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Andreas Jung <lists at zopyx.com> wrote:

> My point about this: if a person does not want
> to host its package on PyPi than it should stay away from PyPI. Package
> hygiene and a certain level of professional package repository is more
> important and personal reasons for not hosting packages on PyPI.
>

Note that PyPI is also used to publish metadata about packages which are in
development and only available in snapshot releases or revision control
systems.  So the "it shouldn't be hosted elsewhere" argument doesn't really
wash.
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