On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:39 PM, techtonik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> As a workaround, if you only need read-only access, you can use the Mercurial >> mirrors which should work through your proxy (AFAIK Mercurial only uses GET >> and >> POST). >> >> Type "hg clone http://code.python.org/hg/trunk/"; or "hg clone >> http://code.python.org/hg/branches/py3k"; depending on what you need exactly. > > I do not need the whole branch - only a small subset of files related > to distutils. I know that bazaar can't do partial checkouts - it can > only fetch the whole branch. What about mercurial? > > And why not to setup HTTPS for anonymous read and authorized write > access? It is not that hard to do and will solve many problems with > proxies.
Because it requires setting up a certificate. You can use HTTP to do a read-only checkout. -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
