On Nov 7, 2009, at 6:57 AM, Andreas Jung wrote:

> 
>  - no more external hosting of packages. If people
>    want their packages listed on Pypi, they should
>    be required to upload their packages on PyPI
>    (no more issues with non-available external server,
>    no more issues with mirroring external servers,
>    no more issues with wrong download URLs within
>    package metadata)
> 


Amen!

Externally hosted packages are a royal PITA and it makes it so much  
harder to automatically install dependencies. This field should at the  
least be marked in the Distutils docs with a big "DEPRECATED: DO NOT  
USE" note.

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