Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-xopen.

[Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>]

On 18/12/16 11:00, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> Marius,
>
> On 16/12/16 17:09, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> Pypi archives are sometimes smaller than the raw sources
> Oh, I didn't know that.
>
>> or otherwise "prepared", but I guess no inherent benefits.
> Good point. I can certainly see people relying too heavily on GitHub
> (and similar) tarball auto-generation, while uploading a better one to
> PyPI that they've actually bootstrapped.
>
> Since this one builds fine, and the GitHub project is the official home
> page for better or worse, I'd vote against adding an ‘additional
> dependency on PyPI infrastucture’ as I think someone on the list put it.

Another reason for using pypi is that the github updater ignores tagged 
but not released 'releases', such as this. Perhaps we should change 
that, do others have an opinion?

Since using pypi is the way Python users expect to be able to install 
packages, making developers less concerned about their github releases 
than their pypi ones, I reckon sticking with pypi-uri is the way to go.

ben