[Distutils] Implementing the reporthook on setuptools

[Leonardo Santagada]

Sidnei gave me the idea to implement a progress status while  
downloading packages with setuptools. There is an empty reporthook on  
package_index.py. If I understood it correctly we could override it to  
show a progress report while it is downloading a package.

The problem is that setuptools don't print directly to the stdout but  
uses a logging infrastructure (the one from distutils) to print. This  
way it is impossible for example to print a '.' at each block received  
(like wget does).

I want to know if you guys think this is interesting and if it is, if  
anyone has any idea on how to do it?

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Leonardo Santagada
santagada at gmail.com