[Distutils] setuptools/buildout: why only one index server configurable

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 08:33:52 CET 2008


On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Andreas Jung <lists at zopyx.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> in buildout I can define only one alternative index server using 'index =
> http://pypi.zopyx.com'. Now we are in the situation where we are running two
> internal index servers (one for our own internal packages and one PyPI
> mirror). Is there some reason for this limitation? I assume this is a
> limitation/feature coming from setuptools?

Yes it is.  That is exactly where setuptools needs to evolve.

For the record: I have asked for that a few months ago, and Jim said
he wanted to  stick with setuptools.

So proposed a patch in setuptools to be able to merge several indexes,
(see http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue32)

But it hasn't been reviewed yet.

>
> Andreas
>
> --
> ZOPYX Ltd. & Co. KG - Charlottenstr. 37/1 - 72070 Tübingen - Germany
> Web: www.zopyx.com - Email: info at zopyx.com - Phone +49 - 7071 - 793376
> Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, Handelsregister A 381535
> Geschäftsführer/Gesellschafter: ZOPYX Limited, Birmingham, UK
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> E-Publishing, Python, Zope & Plone development, Consulting
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Distutils-SIG maillist  -  Distutils-SIG at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
>
>



-- 
Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org
Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org
Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/


More information about the Distutils-SIG mailing list