easy_install doesn't work automatically with elementtree, because its download link leads to an interstitial HTML page. So I thought I'd add the proper link to an index I'm keeping: http://effbot.org/downloads/elementtree-1.2.6-20050316.zip But easy_install ignores it. It looks fine to me? Also, if I want to require a package that isn't locatable through PyPI, how should I deal with that? I can add a find_links value to setup.cfg, then put the link there. It'd be easier if I could put a URL to the package somewhere. Or I guess if I could have a sort of local index. But if I put "./docs/packages.html" as a find_links value, easy_install can't find that. So, what's the best way to deal with that? I'm okay with the index page myself, but I think other people may not want to maintain such a thing. (I'm thinking of writing a little app to create a index for broken PyPI entries, but that's another topic.) And lastly on this topic, what should I do when it's likely a package will be installed without setuptools/easy_install? For something like ElementTree there are lots of packages (RPM, deb, etc) that install the package; I can't really ask people to uninstall those and install the egg version. -- Ian Bicking / ianb@colorstudy.com / http://blog.ianbicking.org