[Distutils] Request for Input re Packaging

[Dave Peterson]

Jeff Rush wrote:
> 2. If we moved PyPI to serve exclusively over https, for integrity
>     reasons, would this have a major negative impact?
>   

Given that urllib2 doesn't support https through a proxy, it would 
probably cause a problem for easy_install, etc.  :-)

We had to create a custom urllib2 Handler for a couple of our 
applications.   I just looked to see if I should pursue re-working our 
solution as a patch and saw that Christopher Li has already posted a 
patch.  http://bugs.python.org/issue1424152   And there is also this 
outstanding ticket: http://bugs.python.org/issue1448934.

-- Dave