[Catalog-sig] Proposal to Reverse Ordering of Scraped Links in PyPI

[Alexis Metaireau]

On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 13:51 -0400, P.J. Eby wrote:
> Ah.  easy_install doesn't support that either, it just doesn't result 
> in an error, because it assumes that 
> <http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/u/unittest2/unittest2-0.5.0-py2.3.tar.gz#md5=c4722438ea5f3f327082c29e9d5ad25a>unittest2-0.5.0-py2.3.tar.gz 
> is either
> 
> 1) the '0.5.0-py2.3' version of unittest2, or
> 2) the 'py2.3' version of 'unittest2-0.5.0'
> 
> And then selects one based on whether you're looking for a project 
> named 'unittest2' or 'unittest2-0.5.0'.
> 
> Distutils2, OTOH, is failing because it can't process '0.5.0-py2.3' 
> as a version number without more heuristics in its "rational 
> suggestion" algorithm.
Exactly !