[Catalog-sig] PyPI and setuptools

[Marcus Smith]

>>One thing to keep in mind is that at least Fedora, and I believe other
>>distros, actually ship distribute rather than vanilla setuptools.
>>Migrating from insecure infrastructure is going to be a slow process,
>>the immediate task is to make such a migration possible by:
>>1. Getting the server side in order
>>2. Offering at least one tool that better handles the security side of
thin

If pip's ssl verification changes pan out, something similar could be
applied to Distribute's easy_install.
Distribute is actively putting out releases.

As for then making Distribute the default in virtualenv's (or the only
option), there is a virtualenv issue for that.
https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/217
apparently there's an issue with "UAC elevation" on windows.
that issue could use some help getting going...

Marcus
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