[Distutils] Immutable Files on PyPI

[Joe Smith]

Thanks for the well-reasoned response Nick.

Donald: +1 to your proposal. This will increase stability for the main
package repository, which is a good direction to move toward.

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 29 Sep 2014 07:37, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> >
> > -1.
> >
> > It does happen that files need to be reuploaded because of a bug
> > in the release process and how people manage their code is really
> > *their* business, not that of PyPI.
> >
> > FWIW, I am getting increasingly annoyed how PyPI and pip try to dictate
> > the way package authors are supposed to build, manage and host their
> > Python packages and release process. Can we please stop this ?
>
> As others have noted, these changes represent the PyPA being opinionated
> on behalf of the user community, to provide the best possible user
> experience for the overall Python ecosystem.
>
> We'll accommodate the existing publisher community as far as is feasible
> (that's why PEP 440 is as complicated as it is, for example), but there are
> going to be times where improving the end user experience means adding new
> constraints on publishers.
>
> External hosting (using PyPI as an index, without also using it for
> release file hosting) is the primary "escape clause" for software
> publishers that prefer to do things differently from the way PyPI does
> them. That's a user experience we'll also continue to work to improve, to
> ensure it is clear that it's a fully supported part of the distribution
> model.
>
> Regards,
> Nick.
>
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