pip install mitmproxy - fails on watchdog-0.8.3.tar.gz with "Permission denied" error (Python 2.7.11 on Win XP SP3);

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng.
<apetrie at aspetrie.net> wrote:
> I know what "upstream" means, in terms of: water flow in a river, or vehicle
> flow on a highway, or data flow over a comms link. "upstream" is where a
> moving particle was, earlier in time
>
> But my puzzlement is -- where is "upstream" in relation to an email forum,
> in the context of a thread?
>
> The fix for the mitmdump bang line bug was applied to file
> mitmdump-script.py, and according to its "Date Modified" field on my Win XP,
> this file arrived in the e:\a p p s\Python27\Scripts\ directory, when I
> installed mitmproxy. So it looks to me like file mitmdump-script.py is a
> product of the mitmproxy project.
>
> Am I correct in assuming, that "upstream" in the context of this present
> thread, means I should report the bang line bug to an mitmproxy forum?

"Upstream" normally refers to a flow of software, rather than of
discussions, but your conclusion is correct: upstream would be the
source of the software you're working with, so in this case, somewhere
specific to mitmproxy.

ChrisA