[Catalog-sig] Use user-specific site-packages by default?

[Lennart Regebro]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at gmail.com> wrote:
> PyPI will need to change for this to happen realistically if I recall. There
> is a hard limit on how large of a distribution can be uploaded to PyPI
> and there are, if I recall, valid distributions which are larger than that.

Anyone know which ones? scipy is the largest I know of, at 6-7 MB.

> Personally I want the installers to only install from PyPI so my suggestion
> if this is something that (the proverbial) we want to do, PyPI should gain
> some notion of a soft limit for distribution upload (to prevent against
> DoS) with the ability to increase that size limit for specific projects who
> can file a ticket w/ PyPI to have their limit increased.

That sounds sensible.

//Lennart