On Dec 11, 2012, at 08:18 AM, Ben Finney wrote:

>Good idea. Port 9 is the “discard” service. But why that particular
>address?

The Crazy Circumstantial Conditions of the Cult of the Cargo.

>> This should probably be mandatory for any distutils based package. ;)
>
>It's a band-aid over the real problem, that of distutils expecting internet
>access for build/install actions.

Well, yeah, there's that.  It's a useful feature for some development regimes
(virtualenv, buildout), if you trust PyPI of course, but I think we'll have
more luck preventing it in package builds than changing
Python/setuptools/distribute to change their behavior.

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