[Catalog-sig] setuptools/distribute/easy_install/pkg_resource sorting algorithm

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 12.03.2013 19:15, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> I've run into a weird issue with easy_install, that I'm trying to solve:
> 
> If I place two files named
> 
> egenix_mxodbc_connect_client-2.0.2-py2.6.egg
> egenix-mxodbc-connect-client-2.0.2.win32-py2.6.prebuilt.zip
> 
> into the same directory and let easy_install running on Linux
> scan this, it considers the second file for Windows as best
> match.
> 
> Is the algorithm used for determining the best match documented
> somewhere ?
> 
> I've had a look at the implementation, but this left me rather
> clueless.
> 
> I thought that setuptools would prefer the .egg file over
> the prebuilt .zip file - binary files being easier to install
> than "source" files.

After some experiments, I found that the follow change
in filename (swapping platform and python version, in addition
to use '-' instead of '.) works:

egenix-mxodbc-connect-client-2.0.2-py2.6-win32.prebuilt.zip

OTOH, this one doesn't (notice the difference ?):

egenix-mxodbc-connect-client-2.0.2.py2.6-win32.prebuilt.zip

The logic behind all this looks rather fragile to me.

Thanks,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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