[Distutils] Immutable Files on PyPI

[Paul Moore]

On 30 September 2014 10:06, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> Let's just be fair here: external hosting of packages has been made so
> user unfriendly in recent pip releases, that this has pretty much
> become a non-option for anyone who wants to create a user friendly
> package installation environment.

This is a fair point. But it is an acknowledged problem in pip and
we're working on resolving it. See
http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0470/. The problem (as with
anything else) is that someone needs to write the code, and that
hasn't happened yet. We'll get to it, but the usual "PRs welcome"
comment applies here :-)

Paul