Re: [Distutils] [ANNOUNCE] pypiserver 0.5.0 - minimal pypi server

pypiserver is a minimal PyPI compatible server. It can be used to serve a set of packages and eggs to easy_install or pip.

I wonder why it needs to be a specialized server. The PyPI API is designed deliberately to avoid the need for custom servers; any web server capable of serving static pages (including SimpleHTTPServer) is capable of serving packages to easy_install or pip. Regards, Martin