[Distutils] easy_install: link detection

[Ian Bicking]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 08:38 PM 8/14/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
> 
>> easy_install doesn't work automatically with elementtree, because its
>> download link leads to an interstitial HTML page.  So I thought I'd add
>> the proper link to an index I'm keeping:
>>    http://effbot.org/downloads/elementtree-1.2.6-20050316.zip
>>
>> But easy_install ignores it.  It looks fine to me?
> 
> 
> Heck if I know.  I tried:
> 
>     easy_install.py 
> -vnfhttp://effbot.org/downloads/elementtree-1.2.6-20050316.zip elementtree
> 
> and it worked just fine.  Got the url of a page I could use to test?  
> Perhaps it's something in the surrounding HTML that's at issue.

It's at http://pythonpaste.org/package_index.html

>> Also, if I want to require a package that isn't locatable through PyPI,
>> how should I deal with that?  I can add a find_links value to setup.cfg,
>> then put the link there.  It'd be easier if I could put a URL to the
>> package somewhere.  Or I guess if I could have a sort of local index.
>> But if I put "./docs/packages.html" as a find_links value, easy_install
>> can't find that.  So, what's the best way to deal with that?  I'm okay
>> with the index page myself, but I think other people may not want to
>> maintain such a thing.
> 
> 
> You can just put all the links directly in the --find-links value, you 
> know.  EasyInstall doesn't install links that it can tell are 
> distributions.

OK, that'll do (probably putting the link in setup.cfg).

>> (I'm thinking of writing a little app to create
>> a index for broken PyPI entries, but that's another topic.)
> 
> 
> Make sure you add an option to send the owner of the broken entry an 
> email every time you have to update your index.  :)

Yeah... at the moment it's so many it's hard to be mad at them.  I 
assume in the ElementTree case it's an attempt to be helpful, even if 
personally it invokes a "just give the file already" reaction.

Personally I'm expecting to use "setup.py upload" for all my future 
distribution, which should make it easier.

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Ian Bicking  /  ianb at colorstudy.com  / http://blog.ianbicking.org