[Distutils] Other ideas from today's packaging meetup at EuroPython

[Daniel Holth]

Also, reject uploads that are not released under a DFSG license or lack man
pages.
On Jul 24, 2014 11:57 AM, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

> On July 24, 2014 at 7:28:55 AM, Richard Jones (r1chardj0n3s at gmail.com)
> wrote:
>
> Several great ideas came out of today's meetup. Some of those I'll leave
> to the proponents themselves to post about, but a couple of little nuggets
> for thought:
>
> 1. reject wheel uploads in the absence of an sdist in the index (the linux
> guys were really happy about that as a proposal ;)
>
> This is gonna make openstack sad I think… They were relying on the fact
> that pip prior to 1.4 didn’t install Wheels, and pip 1.4+ has the
> pre-releases are excluded by default logic to publish pre-releases safely
> to PyPI.
>
> I’m not generally opposed though. Just stating that this will prevent that
> “trick” from working.
>
>
> 2. add a system-wide configuration option to pip etc. so that there could
> be a system-wide override of the package index to use
>
> Yea this was already on my list of things to do when I refactor the
> configuration stuff to use locations which are more in line with what the
> OS norms are (XDG on *nix, ~/Library on OSX, %AppData% stuff on Windows).
> --
> Donald Stufft
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