[Distutils] idea - keeping package index code (in pip, distribute) separate

[Ian Bicking]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar <
sridharr at activestate.com> wrote:

> Both easy_install and pip uses similar method to find download URLs for
> packages. They are not very unreliable - see the new issues in Distribute
> tracker:
>
>  http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issues/?status=new&reported_by=srid
>
> Hence I suggest that we create a separate project containing just this
> indexing code .. and let Distribute and pip use it via install_requires.
> Thoughts?
>

pip won't require any installer, or have any dependencies, because that
would be too cruel to users.  Potentially pip could include code via a build
process (what virtualenv does for few things), but the code would have to be
small and light.  And I'm not sure if the code would be acceptable even
then.  pip's code for finding packages includes a lot of logging (using
pip's logging system) and I wouldn't replace it with something that had less
functionality.

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