[Distutils] What to do about the PyPI mirrors

[Donald Stufft]

On Aug 6, 2013, at 10:11 PM, Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy <tk47 at students.poly.edu> wrote:

> On 08/06/2013 09:59 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:
>> 
>> On Aug 6, 2013, at 9:50 PM, Michael Merickel <mmericke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> How about building a deprecation period into the tooling? pip 1.5+ could warn users who are using *.pypi.python.org of the error in their ways and encourage them to switch to the new system and gives a date of total removal. After removal the code could also be removed from pip 1.x+.
>>> 
>>> - Michael
>> 
>> pip 1.5 already warns if you use ``--use-mirrors`` or ``--mirrors``. I suppose a warning could be added if you use -i N.pypi.python.org as well.
>> 
> 
> Does anyone use anything other than pip to download from N.pypi.python.org?
> 
> 


Yes. Other tooling can be pointed to N.pypi.python.org by specifying them as an index.

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