On 23-jan-2006, at 17:31, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > A little experimentation with the socket module shows that I can > get the > full list of mirror IPs from Python, so I've changed setuptools in > SVN to > just randomly select one to use, which should fix the sticking > problem on > Windows (and any other platform where it occurs). > > It's not a perfect solution, since of course you can still end up > with a > bad mirror for some download, but I'm not sure what else to do, > short of > having some kind of option/configuration to control mirror selection.
You could try several mirrors before giving up. I haven't looked at the sourcecode for setuptools yet, so I don't know if this is feaseable. Ronald > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
