Re: [Distutils] distlib locator compares reasonably well with pip's PackageFinder

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

2. distlib (currently) skips archives automatically generated by sites like GitHub and BitBucket, since the download archive doesn't always contain version information in the name of the download. Examples:

http://github.com/user/project/tarball/master http://bitbucket.org/user/project/get/tip.zip

Just as an FYI, are you aware of the #egg=projname-version tagging convention currently in use for such links?