[Distutils] pypi.python.org as single point of failure

[Reinout van Rees]

On 05/18/2010 10:59 AM, Tom Gross wrote:

>    because of the breakdown of pypi.python.org I found that this Python
> index is hardcoded in the distribute_setup.py-script.
> I tried to workaround the breakage of the index-server by changing my
> hosts-file pointing to a pypi-mirror found on
> http://www.coactivate.org/projects/pypi-mirroring/project-home, but the
> directory structure is different there, so it didn't work.

The difference is the lack of /simple in the directory structure, btw. 
So http://pypi.python.org/simple/ would be the same as 
http://pypi.zopyx.com/ .  So the latter is without the /simple.


Reinout

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