Re: Deprecate External Links

> > 2. External links decrease the expected uptime for a particular set
> > of requirements. PyPI itself has become very stable, however
> > the same cannot be said for all of the hosts linked that the toolchain
> > processes. Each new host is an additional SPOF.
> > 
> > Ex: I depend on PyPI and 10 other external packages, each
> > service has a 99% uptime so my expected uptime to
> > be able to install all my requirements would be ~89% (0.99 ** 11).
> 
> 
> 
> There are many links which go to google, bitbucket or github -
> i doubt those services have worse availability than pypi.python.org (http://pypi.python.org),
> rather better.
> 
> Also we would be loosing a lot of packages because i expect there to
> be a non-trivial amount of packages which will not be transferred to 
> pypi.python.org (http://pypi.python.org) no matter how much people here think it's cool.
> 
> Why not first have an a good infrastructure and capacity with
> pypi.python.org (http://pypi.python.org) so that people *want* to move their files there?
> 
> best,
> holger
> 
Ok, so we have that. What now?