At 10:05 PM 4/3/2011 +0200, Reinout van Rees wrote:
Hi,
My setuptools-using colleagues have problems with downloading setuptools. Initially I suspected the 0.6c12-r12345something releases, that old release numbers were disappearing. But that's apparently not the case, even though having such version numbers downloaded by a standard buildout bootstrap worries me a bit.
I tried using "wget" to download one such release and it also failed. It would download 95% of the file and then stall...
Pinning setuptools to 06c11 (the latest stable) worked like a charm: that one downloaded just fine (or was already available in the cache, probably).
Is there something wrong with the peak server? Should I fix something on our end? (I'm using distribute myself, so I don't have this problem).
You're not the only one who has reported this problem, but I've never been able to reproduce it. I have no clue what's going on, unless it's a matter of what time of day it works vs. not. It's a bog-standard Apache server serving a simple file, so I have no clue what would make it stick like that. Suggestions welcome. (If all else fails, remember that the dev snapshots are pulled from svn.python.org... so you can actually use a svn url instead.)