[Distutils] Distutils / Setuptools on Windows: Can we use local or UNC filesystems as an argument to --find-links

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 04:41 PM 8/12/2008 +0100, Fadhley Salim wrote:
>What about using a network folder, e.g. a UNC path? Were you able to get
>such a thing working ever?

I've heard of people using network folders; I'm not sure I've 
personally tried a UNC path.  Keep in mind that command-line 
quoting/escaping can foul up your backslashes, though, so I would 
suggest trying using '/' in place of '\' in your command line.  That 
is, '//server/share' instead of '\\server\share'.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Phillip J. Eby [mailto:pje at telecommunity.com]
>Sent: 12 August 2008 16:15
>To: Salim, Fadhley (CALYON); distutils-sig at python.org
>Subject: Re: [Distutils] Distutils / Setuptools on Windows: Can we use
>local or UNC filesystems as an argument to --find-links
>
>At 03:46 PM 8/12/2008 +0100, Fadhley Salim wrote:
> >Has anybody had any luck using the --find_options argument to
> >easy_install with a local folder (e.g. on a Windows C: Drive) or a
> >network folder, for example
> >
> >easy_install --find-links="http://server/egs" myegg==1.0.1 ( that sort
> >of thing works fine )
>
>So should this:
>
> >easy_install --find-links="c:\myeggs\" myegg==1.0.1
>
>The file:// urls can work too, but they work differently than just using
>a directory filename; they'll be checked at a later stage of processing.
>And of course, they're harder to get right.  :)