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Re:Malicious software libraries found in PyPI posing as well... by cdnsteve on Friday September 15, 2017 @08:23AM (#15256499)
If there was a business/enterprise offering with extra security I'm sure they'd have a long list of people who would sign up and happily pay for it.
Re:Malicious software libraries found in PyPI posing as well... by raesene6 on Friday September 15, 2017 @08:27AM (#15256526)
Those service already exit, e.g. https://www.sourceclear.com/ whilst I hope they're doing well, I don't think they've made significant in-roads into the volume of people using open source software library repo's.
Re:Malicious software libraries found in PyPI posing as well... by cdnsteve on Friday September 15, 2017 @08:48AM (#15256650)
It needs to be part of PyPi directly, I would have a difficult time trusting and unknown third-party.
Re:Malicious software libraries found in PyPI posing as well... by simon3 on Friday September 15, 2017 @08:34AM (#15256568)
The conda package manager is free and generally feels like a professional package manager like yum or apt-get.
Re:Malicious software libraries found in PyPI posing as well... by edraferi on Friday September 15, 2017 @10:09AM (#15257242)
Yes, Conda [0] is a package manager designed by Continuum Analytics (now Anaconda, Inc.) to support their Anaconda Distribution [1]. The distribution is free, and the Conda client is open source. However, Anaconda sells several enterprise products, including an on-premise Conda server ("Anaconda Repository").

In general, Conda does more package verification than pip, and the packages in the Anaconda distribution are more thoroughly vetted than PyPi. Conda-Forge [2] provides an escape hatch for less-vetted community code.

[0] https://conda.io/docs/index.html [1] https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/ [2] https://conda-forge.org/