[Distutils] nailed-down versions by having custom index

[Carl Meyer]

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Hi Reinout,

Reinout van Rees wrote:
> I'd like to do a bit of experimenting with a custom index with only the
> right packages in just the right versions. Some possible advantages I'm
> hoping to see for my usecase:

I use chishop for this with success: http://github.com/ask/chishop

It emulates PyPI's API, so you can get the packages in there easily
enough by adding your chishop url in .pypirc and (using Python 2.6)
"python setup.py sdist upload -r my_server".

> Question 2: I thought you could only have one index.  So installing
> something extra from pypi seems out.  How do people handle that?

I use pip (and pip requirements files) for installation, and pip has
both the -i/--index-url option (for replacing PyPI entirely) and the
- --extra-index-url option (for layering another index in addition to
PyPI). I don't know how one would do that with other tools.

Carl

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