On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Or you could download a tarball snapshot: http://svn.python.org/snapshots/ > > -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/musiccomposition%40gmail.com > -- Cheers, Benjamin Peterson "There's no place like 127.0.0.1." _______________________________________________ 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
