Both easy_install and pip uses similar method to find download URLs for packages. They are not very unreliable - see the new issues in Distribute tracker:

  http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issues/?status=new&reported_by=srid

Hence I suggest that we create a separate project containing just this indexing code .. and let Distribute and pip use it via install_requires. Thoughts?

-srid
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