[Distutils] Security issue with Distutils register is still actual

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:47 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anybody care that PyPI password are stored in a well-known
> location in cleartext and developers are forced to store them when
> they submit packages for review?
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9995
>

We have hundreds of bugs to fix for distutils. If you propose a patch
+ test, things will speed up.
There are already tests for various register/upload scenarii, so it
should not be hard to copy-paste one to create your test

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