Hardcoded distribute path to PyPi should be removed

[gdmka]

Greets! We use autoindex to mirror project dependencies to private server, among them there's pycassa.

When a person tries to install pycassa from private mirror using pip, pycassa tries to fetch distribute dependency from the official PyPi repo and it doesn't look the index url provided by pip.

The proposal is to add distribute along thrift in install_requires so pip could download it from a private mirror.
Or if a client passes -e or -i flags to pip, pycassa will try to find distribute there.

[thobbs]

Hmm, I'm not sure that the setuptools/ez_setup stuff even needs to be kept around. I think the normal distutils setup() function should be fine. Would that fix the issue for you?

[gdmka]

You're absolutely right. There is no need in use_setuptools() and DEFAULT_URL found in setuptools/ez_setup at all.

The dependencies can be resolved in setup.py using install_requires. Moreover, the hardcoded distribute version is quite old 0.6.14 while the fresh one is 0.7.3. So answering your question, yes.

[thobbs]

Actually, I think it may be a better option to switch to Distribute. I believe it supports the options you need to use a private mirror. Can you try out the distribute branch and let me know if that works for you?

[gdmka]

Yeah, this works! I hope you will merge the branch and release new package for PyPi. Thanks!

[kholia]

@thobbs

I am trying to package pycassa for Fedora. It would be great if you could merge the distribute branch into master and release a new pycassa version.

[thobbs]

@kholia @gdmka given that the Distribute fork of setuptools has been merged back in, I've decided to stick with setuptools and ez_setup.py, which I upgraded here: c841381

The 1.11.0 release includes this change.

Thanks!