[Distutils] easy_install fails on sourceforge?

[Leonardo Santagada]

On Jun 27, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Hartmut Goebel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm struggling with easy_install to download packages from  
> sourceforge.
>
> Eg. pyOpenSSL can not be downloaded for windows. even if adding
> <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=31249&package_id=90289 
> >
> as find-link.
>
> Any hints how I can work around this issue?

A workaround is looking if pip supports it and start recomending it to  
your users.

I vagaly remembers downloading things from sf links with easy_install,  
but it was somewhat long ago, maybe sf or setuptools changed since that.

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