[Distutils] does pypi or red-dove have a better firehose API than "download all the packages"?

[Vinay Sajip]

holger krekel <holger <at> merlinux.eu> writes:

> True but maybe it would go a long way for most packages.  I need dep
> information mostly for finding out in which dep configuration a
> package's tests ran successfully.  I guess just installing it into a
> fresh env and "pip freeze" it with some platform info might more
> directly suit my needs.

If you're talking about doing this with untrusted packages, then from a
security perspective, I presume Donald could root your machine too ;-)

Regards,

Vinay Sajip