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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 05.02.2013 14:06, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> 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.

PyPI would need to be able to provide storage for a lot more distribution
files than you typically find on PyPI nowadays to make the above
practical.

As an example: the files (sources, eggs, installers and prebuilt
binaries, for 3 Python versions, two Unicode build variants,
both 32/64-bit architectures and 4 different platforms)
we host for our egenix-mx-base distribution use up 545MB
for a single release.

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