At 05:39 PM 1/23/2006 +0100, Ronald Oussoren wrote: >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.
It's probably feasible, but a bit of a pain to get set up, and an even bigger pain to test. :) But I've added it to my feature list. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
