2008/8/20 Phillip J. Eby pje@telecommunity.com

At 07:22 PM 8/13/2008 +0200, Tarek Ziade wrote:

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2008/8/12 Phillip J. Eby <mailto:pje@telecommunity.com pje@telecommunity.com> What you really want/need is to make the PackageIndex support retrieval from multiple index urls; the PackageIndex itself aggregates available packages from sources such as the local file system, -f urls, and an underlying package index. So having multiple aggregators would duplicate processing, and deprive you of a global ordering of package precedences.

Is this a feature you would like to see in setuptools ? If so I can write a patch,

Just be aware that I'm likely to be rather picky about how it works. :)

I bet, I'll give a try and submit it :)

Besides this feature, there's one feature we started to add on zc.buildout

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but could be put in setuptools's PackageIndex as well I believe :

Having the option to set a short timeout for *connections* would be useful, I think, just as long as it doesn't end up cutting off slow downloads. I'd prefer it to be controllable from the command line, nonetheless.

As far as I know, the socket timeout will not apply on a download that is beeing processed, but only on 'sleeping' connections. For instance, if I download Firefox with urlopen(), it takes up to 1 second to read() it and the timeout won't occur in that case :

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import socket socket.setdefaulttimeout(1) import urllib2 g = urllib2.urlopen('

http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0.1/mac/fr/Fi... ')

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g.read()

xxxxxxx I get firefox dmg file here

Although I don't know how it behaves on stale connections, I will digg on this

Tarek