On 7/24/07, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 08:54 PM 7/24/2007 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > >> Right. However, if setuptools would stop making case insensitive > > >> lookups to the index, lookups to unregistered packages would become > > >> more efficient. > > > > > > I'm not sure I follow you. If a non-registered package is used as a > > > dependency, the setup() will need to specify dependency_links, in which > > > case PyPI will not be consulted. > > > >Ah, ok. So is it then correct that setuptools never looks at pypi/, > >unless the user misspelled a package name on the command line? > > Pretty much, yes.
Would it be a bad idea to suggest the case insensitive lookup happen against a local flat file that gets diff'd from PyPI? Then only the culprit gets punished using their own CPU :) _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
