Re: Deprecate External Links

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Lennart Regebro <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:34 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm not saying that it's not a good idea to host packages on PyPI,
>> but forcing the community into doing this is not a good idea.
>
> I still don't understand why not. The only reasons I've seen are
> "Because they don't want to" or "because they don't trust PyPI". And
> in the latter case I'm assuming they wouldn't use PyPI at all.

I haven't seen anybody mention it yet, but checkouts of development
versions are a use case that can't currently be addressed without
support for multiple external links.  For example, setuptools itself
offers SVN checkout URLs for two different branches.  I've also seen
in-development packages offered via github or bitbucket checkouts as
well.