On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Andreas Jung <lists@zopyx.com> wrote:
sorry - wrong answer. This is a stupid misbehavior of setuptools or zc.buildout. The zc.buildout package are hosted on PyPI and PyPI was available. There is no reason for whatever component to connect to buildout.org and fail without taking PyPI into account.
Are you sure you used the latest distribute release? I hadn't had any problem at all during that whole time. It sounds like 0.6.13 should help here which includes: Issue 163: scan index links before external links In general distribute should behave better, as we have since 0.6.7: Issue 21: Allow PackageIndex.open_url to gracefully handle all cases of a httplib.HTTPException instead of just InvalidURL and BadStatusLine. Which was the merge of jarn.setuptoolsfixer into the distribute codebase. That package is obsolete for more than a year now. Hanno