Switching to distutils On Aug 13, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Tarek Ziade wrote: ...

Besides this feature, there's one feature we started to add on zc.buildout but could be put in setuptools's PackageIndex as well I believe :

Adding timeouts for url openings, to speed up the processing. For instance, when several urls are visited for a given package, and when a server pointed by one of the url is down, it can last forever.

Speaking of speed, if someone wants a project, it would be really nice someday to make requests in parallel, either using threads or using an async-based library like Twisted. Jim -- Jim Fulton Zope Corporation