[Distutils] Please do not remove dependency_links

Marcus Smith qwcode at gmail.com
Sat Jan 18 02:58:27 CET 2014


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> I haven't used --find-links yet so I may be wrong but tarring up packages
> and serving them by a web server is additional work that I'd rather avoid.
> It just creates yet another copy of the package and requires maintaining an
> additional server component.
>

--find-links can point to a local directory of packages, if that helps you.
also, in case it's not clear, you don't manually tar up packages, you run
"python setup.py sdist" to generate them.
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