[Distutils] sftp support

[Jim Fulton]

Last week I released a plugin for zc.buildout that adds sftp support:

   http://www.python.org/pypi/zc.buildoutsftp

This is useful when you need to use a private distribution server.
I also released a version of buildout that takes advantage of it.

This plugin uses the very nice ssh library, paramiko.

This plugin should be useful for in other setuptools applications  
such as easy_install. There isn't really anything buildout specific  
about it.  In fact, it's really more of a setuptools plugin than a  
buildout plugin.  It's implemented as a urllib2 plugin that returns  
data in a form tailored specifically to setuptools.  To use it, just  
import and call zc.buildoutsftp.buildoutsftp.install(). This installs  
the sftp handler into urllib2. Then, in your setuptools-based  
application, you can use sftp urls to name an index server or find  
links.

Jim

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