[Distutils] Passing user and password to easy_install

[Simon de Vlieger]

Luigi,

I am not sure if using PyPi for private package distribution (what  
this equates to) would be
a particularly nice idea. This way the PyPi would contain packages  
which cannot be installed
by users of PyPi.

Alas, I don't know of any ways distutils can fulfill your request in  
its current form.

Regards,

Simon de Vlieger

On 7 apr 2010, at 17:46, Luigi wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I'm using setuptool module to pack my software and I'd like to
> distribute it via PyPI, making it installable exploiting easy_install.
>
> I have a requirement, though, that I'm not sure is supported by
> setuptools:
>
> My software must be distributed to registered/authenticated/authorized
> users only.
>
> Well, registering the packages I might specify that the download URL
> is a CGI, optionally with Basic Authentication accepting a default
> user and password as described here:
>
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#id17
>
> This would provides me with the possibility of tracking the number of
> downloads, but always with a single public user/password. But I need
> to know who is downloading my packages.
>
> Is there a way to associate a user and password to easy_install
> command? Such data would be nice if passed as Basic Authentication
> data to the download URL...
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Luigi
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