[Catalog-sig] [Distutils] Prototype setuptools-specific PyPI index.

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Jul 24 20:54:24 CEST 2007


>> Right. However, if setuptools would stop making case insensitive
>> lookups to the index, lookups to unregistered packages would become
>> more efficient.
> 
> I'm not sure I follow you.  If a non-registered package is used as a
> dependency, the setup() will need to specify dependency_links, in which
> case PyPI will not be consulted.

Ah, ok. So is it then correct that setuptools never looks at pypi/,
unless the user misspelled a package name on the command line?

Regards,
Martin



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