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Previously in this thread, there have been several plausible<br>
suggestions for modifying (improving?) zc.buildout to cope with the<br>
issues you've identified. Have you relayed these suggestions to the<br>
zc.buildout developers and administrators? Do you know for a fact<br>
that zc.buildout can't be fixed? If so, perhaps it should be removed<br>
from PyPI; I certainly wouldn't want to rely on it.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Didn't Setuptools/easy_install began this policy of following the download_url from PyPI's early days when it wasn't even possible to upload to PyPI (or at least during the transition when a majority of packages only provided download_urls). easy_install has been repeatedly critiqued for this behaviour.<br>
<br>Can anyone say why pip and buildout follow this policy? Has there been any thought to changing the install tools themselves?<br><br>I know that relying on PyPI doesn't give 100% repeatability, but it does tend much more towards repeatability than following download_urls. I know I'd much rather prefer that these tools require a flag to use this behaviour, since many initially assume that these tools only download from an index and find it quite unexpected that they'll follow links to other servers.<br>
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