How do I use easy_install and buildout when pypi is down?

Question

I am using buildout to automatically download and setup the many dependencies of my Plone installation. buildout more or less uses easy_install to download and install a bunch o

Answer 1

You can also use a mirror. Put this in the "[global]" section of "~/.pip/pip.conf":

index-url = http://d.pypi.python.org/simple/

This is a recent feature as announced here.