[Distutils] easy_install installing old version

[Tres Seaver]

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Patrick Lewis wrote:
> Hello, I'm having some trouble with easy_install finding and  
> installing old packages, and I'm not sure why. Specifically, with  
> python2.4, easy_install wants to grab the oldest egg file possible,  
> rather than newer egg or tar.gz  source distributions.
> 
> Here is the pypi page:
> 
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/registration
> 
> and here is a sample install (from a fresh virtualenv)
> 
> (ENV_24_clean)pat-mac:~/Programming/TurboGears/ENV_24_clean plewis$  
> which easy_install-2.4
> /Users/plewis/Programming/TurboGears/ENV_24_clean/bin/easy_install-2.4
> (ENV_24_clean)pat-mac:~/Programming/TurboGears/ENV_24_clean plewis$  
> easy_install-2.4 -U registration
> Searching for registration
> Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/registration/
> Reading http://patrickhlewis.googlepages.com/registration.html
> Reading http://pat.lewis.home.insightbb.com/
> Best match: registration 0.11
> Processing registration-0.11-py2.4.egg
> registration 0.11 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
> 
> I'm not quite sure what's going on here, since
> 
> http://pypi.python.org/simple/registration/
> 
> clearly shows newer versions. If someone could point out what I've  
> done wrong, I'd much appreciate it.

0.11 is the latest version I see there:  the others (0.2, 0.3, 0.4) are
all earlier.  It helps to think of version numbers as the result of
calling '.'.join(version_parts);  they are *not* decimal numbers.  So,
the tuple in question would be (0, 11), which is clearly greater than
(0, 4).


Tres.
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