Re: Deprecate External Links
"M.-A. Lemburg" <[email protected]>
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On 28.02.2013 07:39, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: >> Sometimes you need to break things. The goal is to do it with ample >> warning and migration time so that people have a chance to move >> to the new way of doing things. >> >> Again, I am not suggesting we delete all external links immediately, just >> disable new ones. Removing old ones will come later. > > This thread is long enough that I'm not sure on where to weigh in. > Here seems appropriate enough. > > 1. The next generation metadata infrastructure will NOT support > external hosting of files indexed on PyPI - if you don't upload the > archive files to PyPI, they won't be included in the next generation > metadata. If you want external hosting, you will need to run a > separate index (this is similar to the yum model - you can host files > wherever you want, but you need to run "yum createrepo" yourself to > generate the metadata, and instruct users on how to get their > installers to retrieve your metadata. The big difference between PyPI > and the yum model is that the default index still won't be curated at > all, so there's no review process to get through if you want to use > it, thus less need for external hosting). Could you elaborate on this ? AFAIK, the metadata only works on package names, regardless of where an installer finds them. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Feb 28 2013) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/