Hi all, I have a very real-world problem I'm hitting with distribute, and I'm proposing a patch. Right now, PyPI points to a tar.gz for the 'nose' package that returns Searching for nose==1.0.0 Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/nose/ Reading http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/ Reading http://readthedocs.org/docs/nose/ Best match: nose 1.0.0 Downloading http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/nose-1.0.0.tar.gz error: Can't download http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/nose-1.0.0.tar.gz: 404 Not Found I propose that if distribute hits a HTTP error like this, it keeps looping and tries the next available tar.gz for nose. In my case, I think it then succeed because I have dependency_links in my setup() call (in my setup.py) that point to where I have been stashing copies of my own dependencies: http://linode.openhatch.org/~paulproteus/ So I propose this patch. It is pretty straightforward. I hope that you accept it, and if not, that you explain why. I have re-run the test suite after the addition of my patch, and it does not break any existing tests. -- Asheesh.