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

[Andreas Jung]

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

Development packages and snapshot don't belong on PyPI in my opinion.
PyPI should not be an unflushed package toilet. The Perl world has
a working repository infrastructure with CPAN since many, many years.
Python is years behind.

- -aj
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