Is vcversioner no longer dependency of jsonschema?

[idgserpro]

I am having trouble installing jsonschema2.6.0 in environments without accessing pypi because of vcversioner. But I see that it is no longer dependency.

[Julian]

It isn't, but setuptools_scm is now, which works the same exact way.

[idgserpro]

I'm basically having the same problem as #276, but using the buildout to install jsonschema.

We have a server without internet access and we install the packages from an internal mirror. We configure the buildout index to get packages from this mirror. The buildout uses this configuration to get packages that are in install_requires, but it doesn't work for packages that are in setup_requires.

So easy_install tries to download vcversioner from pypi but, as the server doesn't access the internet, an error occurs:

Getting required 'jsonschema==2.6.0'
We have no distributions for jsonschema that satisfies 'jsonschema==2.6.0'.
Getting distribution for 'jsonschema==2.6.0'.
Running easy_install:
/opt/programas/zope/2.13.26/zinstance/bin/python "-c" "from setuptools.command.easy_install import main;main()" "-mUNxd" "/opt/programas/zope/2.13.26/zinstance/zeoclient/eggs/tmpOpVeBa" "-q" "/tmp/tmpYl0V09get_dist/jsonschema-2.6.0.tar.gz"
path=/opt/programas/zope/2.13.26/zinstance/zeoclient/eggs/setuptools-26.1.1-py2.7.egg

Download error on https://pypi.python.org/simple/vcversioner/: [Errno 111] Connection refused -- Some packages may not be found!
Couldn't find index page for 'vcversioner' (maybe misspelled?)
Download error on https://pypi.python.org/simple/: [Errno 111] Connection refused -- Some packages may not be found!
No local packages or working download links found for vcversioner>=2.16.0.0
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('vcversioner>=2.16.0.0')
An error occurred when trying to install jsonschema 2.6.0. Look above this message for any errors that were output by easy_install.
While:
  Installing instance.
  Getting distribution for 'jsonschema==2.6.0'.
Error: Couldn't install: jsonschema 2.6.0

Is possible fix this by using a ~/.pydistutils.cfg file with the content:

[easy_install]
index_url = http://my.mirror/root/pypi

This tells to easy_install to get packages from my mirror and not from pypi.

Probably, we will have the same problem with setuptools_scm. But this isn't a problem of jsonschema, so we're commenting here just for the sake of documentation.

Thanks.