Many thanks, Phillip, for your quick and generous response.
Eggs are a binary distribution format, originally developed to support user-installed plugins for systems like Chandler, Zope, etc. They aren't a source distribution format; sdist works well enough for that and for easy_install if you have a pure-Python package (or your users have C compilers).
Oh joy. sdist is working fine--Leo is indeed a pure python program.
I'd suggest using the --show-response option so you can see what's happening.
Will do, assuming there is still a problem with uploading the .zip file.
here's the output from my attempt at downloading from the SF page:
$ easy_install -nvf http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458 leo
Excellent. I'll try again with the options you show.
Setuptools is currently at 0.6c6. There are a handful of known issues and quirks remaining, but it is otherwise pretty darn stable.
I'll consign the referenced post to the dustbin of history :-) Thanks again. I have lots of hope now. Edward -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward K. Ream email: edreamleo@charter.net Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html --------------------------------------------------------------------