Can't install due to distribute package being downloaded without HTTPS

[fabiorauber]

Since October, 2017, pypi no longer works with HTTP, only HTTPS. When installing collective.xmpp.chat via buildout, it tries to download "distribute" via http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.34.tar.gz and fails.

[jcbrand]

Hi @fabiorauber

I'm the original author of this package.

collective.xmpp.chat is very old by now, unsupported and it uses a very old version of converse.js.

There are also much better ways to integrate XMPP into Plone, than how collective.xmpp.core does it, which this package depends on.

If you're really serious about integrating XMPP-based chat, contact me and I'll explain further what needs to be done.

This package could be updated to use latest converse.js, but I would get rid of collective.xmpp.core and create a new base-package which does the XMPP integration into Plone.

[holdenhao]

You can edit the package's distribute_setup.py and change the value of DEFAULT_URL. You can then zip it back up and upload to your own pypi. In my case, I had to use distribute version 0.6.49 with a patch to also resolve the sys_platform issue reported in #18