Oct. 27, 2012
9:57 a.m.
PJ Eby <pje <at> telecommunity.com> writes:
Just as an FYI, are you aware of the #egg=projname-version tagging convention currently in use for such links?
I wasn't - thanks - still new to this game :-) In the cases I was referring to, the fragment looks like #egg=projname-dev. I still have to look through the 2% where distlib's behaviour is different and check what the reason is. I'm not sure if we should, as default behaviour, identify such archives as potential downloads, especially as a goal is to do dependency resolution without having to actually download archives and inspecting PKG-INFO / running egg-info on them etc. Of course, this verification could be done during actual installation. Regards, Vinay Sajip