[Distutils] easy_install unable to install from sourceforge?

[oliver]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 12:07 AM, oliver <oliver.schoenborn at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hartmut, thanks for reply. However that is not the problem; look:
>
> ...
>
> So again, the main issue is that "easy_install pypubsub" is unable to
> process what it obtains from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pubsub/files/pubsub/3.1.1b1/PyPubSub-3.1.1b1-py2.6.egg/download,
> but it is able to process PyPubSub-3.1.1b1-py2.6.egg when obtained several
> other ways.
>
> Oliver
>

So I finally found a way to make it work. Use the direct download links
that sf.net provides, on the pypi page of the package. More details at
http://schollii.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-make-easyinstall-work-with-dists.html
.

Oliver


>
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Hartmut Goebel <
> h.goebel at goebel-consult.de> wrote:
>
>> **
>> Am 14.12.2011 22:30, schrieb oliver:
>>
>>
>>  Downloading
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pubsub/files/pubsub/3.1.1b1/PyPubSub-3.1.1b1.win32.zip/download
>> Processing download
>> error: Couldn't find a setup script in
>> c:\docume~1\schoenb\locals~1\temp\easy_install-sa7vdr\download
>>
>>   This file is an egg, but has the wrong extension (.zip). Hus
>> easy_install thinks, this is a source archive. You need to mkae the pysub
>> maintainers fixing it.
>>
>>
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