Originally posted to comp.lang.python... skip> I'm trying to easy_install pylons. Alas: skip> $ easy_install pylons skip> Searching for pylons skip> Best match: Pylons 0.9.4.1 skip> Processing Pylons-0.9.4.1-py2.5.egg skip> Pylons 0.9.4.1 is already the active version in easy-install.pth skip> Using /usr/local/mojam/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Pylons-0.9.4.1-py2.5.egg skip> Processing dependencies for pylons skip> Searching for Myghty>=1.1 skip> Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/Myghty/ skip> Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/Myghty/1.1 skip> Reading http://www.myghty.org skip> error: Download error: (111, 'Connection refused') skip> Is it not able to get past this point because there is only one skip> source for Myghty or does it always need to go to a package's home skip> page? I was able to work around this by manually downloading the skip> Myghty-1.1.tar.gz file and installing it. to which Robert Kern responded: Robert> Asking on Distutils-SIG list will be more likely to get Phillip Robert> Eby's attention. It surprises me that setuptools didn't pick up Robert> the tarball on the CheeseShop. then later: Robert> Now that www.myghty.org is back up, I see that the CheeseShop Robert> tarball is picked up eventually. I believe that easy_install Robert> checks all of the various sources to try to find a best match Robert> (for some definition of "best"). Of course, I would consider it Robert> a bug that an exception raised while trying to fetch one Robert> possible source stops the entire process, particularly when a Robert> matching tarball has already been found. So, Phillip, any thoughts on this? Skip