On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Chris Withers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > bootstrap.py contains the following hard coded url: > > exec urllib2.urlopen('http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py' > ).read() in ez > > With hindsight, this seems like a bad idea.
I don't see a good alternative. > For example, with the ridiculous > situation we currently have with setuptools and distribute. It also means > that the above url can't ever change, which is a bit of a harsh requirement. > > My suggestion would be for bootstrap.py to include the code in ez_setup.py, > but that seems a little heavyweight. ez_setup.py has a hard coded URL too. And using it's code wouldn't do anything for the situation with distribute. > I guess this will all be solved when > the standard library includes modules to download packages from PyPI and > install them. But what to do in the meantime? For myself, I'm going to stay out of Tarek's way and see what develops. :) Jim -- Jim Fulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
