Ian Bicking wrote:

We've been building some custom eggs for the lxml trunk and we uploaded the packages to our wiki, which replaced the .'s with -'s. This messed up the filenames, so we added #egg in an effort to correct that:

http://www.openplans.org/projects/opencore/dependencies/lxml-2-0alpha5-py2-4...

But it seems that easy_install prefers the base name, not the fragment, and so it parsed this as an lxml 2 egg, with 0alpha5blahblahblah as the platform(?)... I'm not sure exactly how it parsed it, but it got it wrong.

It seems like easy_install should prefer fragments over the filename itself, as the fragments will only be there if someone deliberately adds them.

Actually, it just occurred to me that there's a link on the page with the #egg, and one without, and probably easy_install was just looking at the link without the fragment. So maybe our plan to use #egg to correct the link just wasn't going to work with the site. -- Ian Bicking : ianb@colorstudy.com : http://blog.ianbicking.org