[Distutils] Strict/Loose Version and toolchains checks

Hi, Since we are talking about versioning, here is one more complaint which may fall into the bugreport category or not, I am not sure. There are some version checks in some codepaths which do not make much sense IMHO, in particular: - distutils checks the versions of the toolchain. Thi

Re: [Distutils] Utility to mirror an egg index from a Debian distribution

At 01:00 PM 5/15/2009 +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: Hi, It may seem like a backwards way of doing things, but I have a need for a utility that can maintain a python package index mirror of a Debian repository. The basic idea is to extract the tarballs of Python packages from the Debian reposit

[Distutils] Utility to mirror an egg index from a Debian distribution

Hi, It may seem like a backwards way of doing things, but I have a need for a utility that can maintain a python package index mirror of a Debian repository. The basic idea is to extract the tarballs of Python packages from the Debian repository and rename them to the original setuptools name. It