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Why not just fork the pypi code and fix it, then?

donaldstufft 13y ago
Have you looked at the PyPI codebase? ;) The real answer is I have. I'm a PyPI administrator now and have been enacting a lot of these benefits on PyPI itself. Just this weekend I've deployed a CDN in front of all of PyPI so that package downloads have sped up by 1-3 orders of magnitude depending on location. Previously I had pushed hard for getting a real valid and trusted SSL certificate on PyPI, moving the user provided html/js from packages.python.org to pythonhosted.org in order to prevent CSRF fixation attacks. Like I said Crate is an experiment. One that has enabled me to push for good changes in PyPI.
- meowface 13y ago
  I think you're doing good work here, and I agree that PyPI is quite a bit of a mess. One little suggestion/question, though. CPAN: Comprehensive Perl Archive Network Rubygems: (self-explanatory) PyPI: Python Package Index Crate.io: Crate? Crate.io? Nothing about the name or any part of the domain really mentions Python, or Python packages or libraries. It's not a bad name, but it doesn't really seem like a name for a large Python package index. What's the exact rationale behind the naming?
  - donaldstufft 13y ago
    Crate is a synonym for Package and I liked the name :)
    - jl6 13y ago
      I believe a krait is a kind of snake if you want to go for that angle.
      - antihero 13y ago
        The only reason I know this is due to playing Elite II.
        jl6 13y ago
        Ditto :-) There was a Python freighter too!
        antihero 13y ago
        IIRC that was actually the best (although not the biggest).
    - lightcatcher 13y ago
      If you aren't aware, packages in the Rust programming language are called crates.
  - flexd 13y ago
    If it actually ends up replacing PyPI it could just live on the same domain as PyPi though (provided they are okay with that). But it needs a lot of work on the front end in order to be better :-), I like the backend fixes and speed improvements though.
  - zamalek 13y ago
    Ditto. Plane.io.

Have you looked at the PyPI codebase? ;) The real answer is I have. I'm a PyPI administrator now and have been enacting a lot of these benefits on PyPI itself. Just this weekend I've deployed a CDN in front of all of PyPI so that package downloads have sped up by 1-3 orders of magnitude depending on location. Previously I had pushed hard for getting a real valid and trusted SSL certificate on PyPI, moving the user provided html/js from packages.python.org to pythonhosted.org in order to prevent CSRF fixation attacks. Like I said Crate is an experiment. One that has enabled me to push for good changes in PyPI.

meowface 13y ago
I think you're doing good work here, and I agree that PyPI is quite a bit of a mess. One little suggestion/question, though. CPAN: Comprehensive Perl Archive Network Rubygems: (self-explanatory) PyPI: Python Package Index Crate.io: Crate? Crate.io? Nothing about the name or any part of the domain really mentions Python, or Python packages or libraries. It's not a bad name, but it doesn't really seem like a name for a large Python package index. What's the exact rationale behind the naming?
- donaldstufft 13y ago
  Crate is a synonym for Package and I liked the name :)
  - jl6 13y ago
    I believe a krait is a kind of snake if you want to go for that angle.
    - antihero 13y ago
      The only reason I know this is due to playing Elite II.
      - jl6 13y ago
        Ditto :-) There was a Python freighter too!
        antihero 13y ago
        IIRC that was actually the best (although not the biggest).
  - lightcatcher 13y ago
    If you aren't aware, packages in the Rust programming language are called crates.
- flexd 13y ago
  If it actually ends up replacing PyPI it could just live on the same domain as PyPi though (provided they are okay with that). But it needs a lot of work on the front end in order to be better :-), I like the backend fixes and speed improvements though.
- zamalek 13y ago
  Ditto. Plane.io.