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

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? -srid