[Distutils] Google Auth is broken for PyPI

[Donald Stufft]

> On Feb 10, 2015, at 9:27 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
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> On Mon Feb 09 2015 at 2:42:46 PM Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org <mailto:barry at python.org>> wrote:
> On Feb 08, 2015, at 11:37 PM, Richard Jones wrote:
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> >Google has discontinued support for OpenID, so we're not going to be
> >putting any effort into debugging this issue.
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> I hope you'll continue to support other OpenID providers, e.g. Launchpad.
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> Does Launchpad support OpenID Connect? If so then migrating to that would solve this.
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> Otherwise it may be time to have a serious look at our federated login support and consider adding GitHub and Bitbucket for wider reach as OpenID 1.0/2.0 is extremely niche at this point. 

Honestly, I’d rather have less federated login not more. I wish the current OpenID support had never been added.

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