On 05/09/2011 02:09 PM, Mathieu Leduc-Hamel wrote:
> yes but with find-links i think you are forced to defined a specific
> link which point directly to the package, and the index option is
> where you can specify another pypi index.
> 
> am i right ?

Depends what you mean by "point directly to the package" - you give
find-links a URL that contains HTML links to package tarballs, named
appropriately (or with #egg= suffixes) to be recognizable as
project+version. So it's pretty easy to use a webserver directory with
directory indexes on and dump whatever sdists you want in there.

But you're right that find-links isn't quite the same as using an
alternative index, or multiple indexes, just in that the URL structures
used for project/version lookups on a PyPI-compatible index have an
inherent nesting. This only really matters if you're dealing with so
many packages that dumping the sdists in a single directory becomes
unwieldy.

FWIW, pip supports both --find-links and multiple indexes (via
--extra-index-url).

Carl
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