Jim Fulton wrote:
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.
At least having it overrideable on the command line and/or by an
environment variable would be the way forward...
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.
Indeed, but that uses the advertised public APIs of PyPI, which I have a
little more faith in. But yes, this whole business of hardcoding
download urls is brittle and annoying. What's needed to make it no
longer necessary? stdlib support for downloading a package from an
index, with PyPI as the default?
Chris
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