At 08:45 PM 5/29/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
Attached is a patch so it can install from Sourceforge Download pages, choosing a random mirror.
Yay! I've incorporated more or less the same patch, after an unsuccesful experiment trying to pull the 'refresh:' from the HTTP headers. (Firefox showed it in the "View Page Info", so I thought it was there, and in fact it is only in the HTML. Oh well.) So, have you changed your opinion at all about the value of screenscraping as a way to build a Python package tool? I notice you've sent two patches today that apply regexes to HTML. :) I am a *little* concerned about the sourceforge support, given that they could change their download system any time, and if easy_install is distributed with Python that might make it harder to upgrade. But, at least people have the option of subclassing.