[mounds]

Whoa whoa whoa! Revolutionary idea - signed packages?! /s

In all seriousness though, Python's community is so communally fractured, I don't see one standard winning out. When the community revolts against it's own 'benevolent dictator for life' for wanting to better the language specification... It's most likely headed for doom.

Python and PyPi are in a precarious state. They are getting a lot of attention from a lot of people, who may or may not have it's best interest in mind. Previous Python users were using the language out of love for the language and it's facilities...

This issue is the tip of a much deeper iceberg lingering in the Python ecosystem: how is Python being intelligibly managed, if at all?

[Alex3917]

> When the community revolts against it's own 'benevolent dictator for life' for wanting to better the language specification... It's most likely headed for doom.

That's Python's biggest strength. If you want a bug fixed or feature added to javascript, you need to pay $20M to join ECMA or whatever. If you want the same in Python you just post on the mailing list and argue your case. You might not win, but you're at least guaranteed your day in court. That's the most valuable 'feature' of the Python ecosystem, even if it gets a little heated at times.