[Distutils] setuptools/buildout: why only one index server configurable

[Andreas Jung]

On 26.11.2008 8:33 Uhr, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Andreas Jung<lists at zopyx.com>  wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> in buildout I can define only one alternative index server using 'index =
>> http://pypi.zopyx.com'. Now we are in the situation where we are running two
>> internal index servers (one for our own internal packages and one PyPI
>> mirror). Is there some reason for this limitation? I assume this is a
>> limitation/feature coming from setuptools?
>
> Yes it is.  That is exactly where setuptools needs to evolve.
>
> For the record: I have asked for that a few months ago, and Jim said
> he wanted to  stick with setuptools.
>
> So proposed a patch in setuptools to be able to merge several indexes,
> (see http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue32)
>
> But it hasn't been reviewed yet.

I think this is a very helpful patch. We would appreciate it if the 
patch could make it into the next setuptools release asap.

Andreas
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