P.J. Eby schrieb:
Using that as a find-link works fine for me; it downloads the 0.9 source package, since I don't have Python 2.6. (The windows files shown there are all for Python 2.6.)
So my explanation has bee a bit short, I see. This is not what I want. Esp. the source is not found at sourceforge but via pypi :-) Try without using an index. I would expect to get pyOpenSSL-0.8.winxp32-py2.5.exe from SF, but is is not found: easy_install -i file://NUL -f 'http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=31249&package_id=90289' pyOpenSSL==0.8 I use the following script for testing. Setting loglevel to 5 would report any link found, but in this case no link is reported (and package is found). ....8<------------- from setuptools.command import easy_install from distutils import log log.set_verbosity(5) # this would print any found link args = """ -i file://NUL -f http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=31249&package_id=90289 pyOpenSSL==0.8""".split() easy_install.main(args) ....8<------------- -- Schönen Gruß - Regards Hartmut Goebel Dipl.-Informatiker (univ.), CISSP, CSSLP Goebel Consult Spezialist für IT-Sicherheit in komplexen Umgebungen http://www.goebel-consult.de