[Distutils] idea - keeping package index code (in pip, distribute) separate

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

Both easy_install and pip uses similar method to find download URLs for  
packages. They are not very unreliable - see the new issues in Distribute  
tracker:

   http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issues/?status=new&reported_by=srid

Hence I suggest that we create a separate project containing just this  
indexing code .. and let Distribute and pip use it via install_requires.  
Thoughts?

-srid