[Distutils] Immutable Files on PyPI

Noah Kantrowitz noah at coderanger.net
Mon Sep 29 07:40:38 CEST 2014


On Sep 28, 2014, at 12:31 PM, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at RACKSPACE.COM> wrote:

> Hello All!
> 
> I'd like to discuss the idea of moving PyPI to having immutable files. This
> would mean that once you publish a particular file you can never reupload that
> file again with different contents. This would still allow deleting the file or
> reuploading it if the checksums match what was there prior.
> 

+1. Would vastly simplify the infra side!

--Noah


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