[Distutils] Add optional password_command .pypirc value

[Donald Stufft]

On Mar 8, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Matt Behrens <askedrelic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does this seem like it's worth making a patch?
> 
> Personally I think it's better to the the ssh way and support
> uploading via ssh with uploaded ssh keys, and deprecate the password
> support for uploading. That way there is no problems with integrating
> a bunch of different platform specific keyring systems.

I dislike hijacking SSH to tunnel a HTTP protocol over and adding more reliance on SSH keys means a lost SSH key becomes _even_ worse than it already is.

I don't think the long term answer is key rings either.

> 
> That said, this is just me talking, and doing counts more. :-)
> 
> //Lennart
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