[Distutils] bootstrap.py doesn't work offline?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:43:26PM +0000, Chris Withers wrote:
> Is it just me or does buildout's bootstrap.py not work offline, even if 
> the latest versions of buildout and setuptools are available in 
> buildout:egg-directory?

That's right.  bootstrap.py is essentially

   exec urllib.urlopen('http://someplace/somescript').read().

I was scared too when I first saw it.

But you don't need bootstrap.py if you already have buildout installed.

Marius Gedminas
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