easy_install pylons failure - www.myghty.org unavailable

[Robert Kern]

Robert Kern wrote:
> skip at pobox.com wrote:
> 
>> Is it not able to get past this point because there is only one source for
>> Myghty or does it always need to go to a package's home page?  I was able to
>> work around this by manually downloading the Myghty-1.1.tar.gz file and
>> installing it.
> 
> Asking on Distutils-SIG list will be more likely to get Phillip Eby's attention.
> It surprises me that setuptools didn't pick up the tarball on the CheeseShop.

Now that www.myghty.org is back up, I see that the CheeseShop tarball is picked
up eventually. I believe that easy_install checks all of the various sources to
try to find a best match (for some definition of "best"). Of course, I would
consider it a bug that an exception raised while trying to fetch one possible
source stops the entire process, particularly when a matching tarball has
already been found.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco