[Distutils] Sourceforge changed HTML again...

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Mon Jan 23 17:39:25 CET 2006


On 23-jan-2006, at 17:31, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>
> A little experimentation with the socket module shows that I can  
> get the
> full list of mirror IPs from Python, so I've changed setuptools in  
> SVN to
> just randomly select one to use, which should fix the sticking  
> problem on
> Windows (and any other platform where it occurs).
>
> It's not a perfect solution, since of course you can still end up  
> with a
> bad mirror for some download, but I'm not sure what else to do,  
> short of
> having some kind of option/configuration to control mirror selection.

You could try several mirrors before giving up. I haven't looked at the
sourcecode for setuptools yet, so I don't know if this is feaseable.

Ronald

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