[Distutils] Self Introduction and Getting Hands On

[Tarek Ziadé]

On 7/3/12 10:05 AM, Alexis Métaireau wrote:
> Le mar. 03 juil. 2012 09:55:06 CEST, Tarek Ziadé a écrit :
>> On 7/3/12 9:51 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>>> Not sure how http://restricted.crate.io/ qorks (unreachable for me
>>>> right now - 'internal server error')
>>> Hmm that's odd, it works for me now and I don't see anything logged.
>>
>> The 3rd hit worked.
>>
>>> All it does is it doesn't list
>>> any external links on the simple pages so pip, easy_install etc never
>>> find any links to spider ;)
>>>
>>> That's all being refactored currently to work a lot nicer though on
>>> Crate's end.
>>
>> But IIRC when the package is downloaded, the metadata are built
>> in-place, and the installer may visit the home url for example that's
>> in setup.py, no ?
>
> the crawler follows the links present in the simple index before 
> determining which distribution to download.
>
> However, that's true that the metadata is buit from the information 
> contained in the setup.py file, and reuses the url present in setup.py 
> as the "url" metadata. In any case, that's *after* following the links 
> in the index.

Yeah so even a 'cleaned up' mirror will not do the trick.  For pip and 
easy_install, we need a lower-level barrier to avoid hitting the net