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They're running a business. They offer an inordinate amount of service totally free to millions of developers, and they make their actual client open-source for your pleasure. Is your argument they also have to go to the trouble of making their infrastructure easily self-hosted? How would they make the money to pay the lawyers to respond to the very legal threat this tweet is about without revenue?

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Please, it's arbitrary to run a private PyPi repository, all you need is a web server and a certain folder structure. If you want, you can even host everything on a private S3 and use a tiny Nginx configuration to authenticate the requests on behalf of pip [1].

Private npm repositories are an entirely different beast, and like GP mentions, there is no great option here.

[1] https://www.guido.nyc/pypi-s3/

Potential users should be aware that the quoting in the shell commands on that page is faulty and requires attention.

Can you give an example? Not sure what you're referring to.

https://cloudsmith.io/l/npm-repository/ - no?

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