At 01:49 PM 5/21/2009 -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:

Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.5/p/pyOpenSSL/pyOpenSSL-0.9.py2.5-winxp32....

What's bizarre is that that's not a valid egg filename; they must have renamed it at some point. The filename is invalid in two ways: first, it has a '.' between the version and the Python version (it should be a '-') and second, 'winxp32' is not a valid platform name. I would suggest contacting the PyOpenSSL maintainers to find out why they have renamed it in this fashion; .egg files should never be renamed under any circumstances. (I'm actually surprised that easy_install is recognizing it at all, but basically it appears to be treating it as if it's a non-platform-specific egg. That's arguably a bug.)

zipimport.ZipImportError: not a Zip file

This part is an expected failure with a --dry-run. It perhaps could be fixed, but the problem is that with --dry-run on, the egg is not moved to the target directory, so when it tries to create a Distribution object for the installed egg, it fails. This has nothing to do with the version problem - you will probably see this occur at the end of any --dry-run install, unless an identically-named egg was was already present.