[Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi? (original) (raw)

Jesse Noller jnoller at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 19:38:06 CEST 2009

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

Jesse Noller schrieb:

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:

it's revews like this that makes me wonder if releasing open source is a good idea:

no egg - worst seen ever, remove it from pypi or provide an egg (jensens, 2009-10-05, 0 points) Unfortunately; we're now staring down the barrel of having youtube-style comments on Python packages on the index. Yes, unfortunately. I originally thought that restricting the commenters to those with a PyPI account would make them useful, but seeing this one (even if it was not intended) and the comment on hgsvn that belongs into a bug tracker instead, I'm not so sure anymore. Georg

There would need to be a fair amount of work to make the system useful and almost self-policing. Not to mention people can make plenty of fake pypi accounts for pure astroturfing reasons.

jesse

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