"Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 01:25 PM 12/28/2006 +0900, David Smith wrote: >>Hello, >> >>I needed support in easy_install for installing from HTTP >>digest and basic authenticated sites so I wrote the included >>patch. It currently supports specifying username and password >>information at the command line (however misguided that may be) >>and prompting the user interactively. It should also be easy to >>integrate with graphical interfaces. Please consider it for >>inclusion in the next release. > > Thanks for the submission, but for a number of reasons, I don't > think it makes sense to put HTTP authentication directly into > easy_install as a core feature. > > For version 0.7 and beyond, however, there will probably be > some sort of plugin mechanism to enable alternative file > transport protocols, so you should be able to plug this sort of > thing in without patching easy_install in that case.
Thanks a lot for responding so fast. Hmm, while I agree with you that this probably doesn't belong in core, I do strongly believe it belongs in the HTTP support whether that support is refactored into a separate module for 0.7 or in its current form. The usecase is too obvious: using setuptools for distribution of modules that are not publically available, such as commercial or pre-release development. Until 0.7 is released, considering the very small size of the patch, could we add this for now and refactor it later? Thanks, -- David D. Smith
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