At 10:56 AM 7/18/2009 -0700, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
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?
In order for install_requires to work, you need something like
easy_install in the first place... and a way to bootstrap it.
You could perhaps take setuptools.package_index or something like it,
bundle it with pkg_resources, and have a nice little core support for
dependency handling, downloading, and local package queries. Then,
you could put it in the stdlib... kind of like I proposed in PEP 365. ;-)
Alternately, you need a replacement for ez_setup.py that's a
stripped-down cross between pkg_resources and
setuptools.package_index, or that can at least *download* that
combination for you and then run other stuff.
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