[Distutils] pypi.python.org as single point of failure

[Tom Gross]

On 05/18/2010 03:10 PM, Reinout van Rees wrote:
> On 05/18/2010 10:59 AM, Tom Gross wrote:
> 
>>    because of the breakdown of pypi.python.org I found that this Python
>> index is hardcoded in the distribute_setup.py-script.
>> I tried to workaround the breakage of the index-server by changing my
>> hosts-file pointing to a pypi-mirror found on
>> http://www.coactivate.org/projects/pypi-mirroring/project-home, but the
>> directory structure is different there, so it didn't work.
> 
> The difference is the lack of /simple in the directory structure, btw.
> So http://pypi.python.org/simple/ would be the same as
> http://pypi.zopyx.com/ .  So the latter is without the /simple.
> 

I know, but that's not the issue. It is that

http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/

is hardcoded in

http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py


The location of the distribute-egg should be a configurable option of
distribute_setup.py


-Tom

> 
> Reinout
>