On 2015/08/15 12:57, Nigel Taylor wrote: > > The download for source is here, not github > https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/L/LinkChecker/LinkChecker-9.3.tar.gz > The source includes signature files found here. > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/LinkChecker/9.3 > > > This is a listed python package. > > For perl CPAN we don't use github we still get source from CPAN. > Being on github doesn't automatically mean github is the method for release. > > Is there a standard way of dealing with python packages from pypi? > Haven't done much python myself.
These days it's MODPY_PI=Yes, and I think that is a much better distfile source than github.