On 06/01/2010 12:15 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
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> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Charles Vejnar <
ce@vejnar.eu
> <mailto:
ce@vejnar.eu>> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I was trying to install Scipy with easy_install and it seems that
> downloading
> from Sourceforge is no longer possible (Sourceforge no longer gives
> a direct
> link to the .tar.gz file) which makes the install fail.
>
> Would it be possible to always upload the latest Scipy tarball to PyPI ?
>
> It's possible, but because that encourages the use of easy_install/pip
> it would probably give more problems than that it helps. Just today
> there was a thread on numpy-discussion about pip failing and standard
> "python setup.py install" fixing the problem. easy_install is just as
> problematic as pip, if not more so.
Unfortunately, people will always use those half broken tools. I think