[Distutils] easy_install problem.

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:02 PM 12/2/2005 -0800, Titus Brown wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>it appears easy_install has trouble understanding package names with
>periods in them, e.g. "zope.testbrowser".

Use 'zope-testbrowser' or 'zope_testbrowser' instead to refer to such a 
package for now; '.' is not currently allowed in package names.


>Also, 'python ez_setup.py --help-commands' doesn't work; "unrecognized
>command".

Just use --help.  ez_setup.py isn't a setup script.


>(I'm not sure where to send reports of these problems, but google found
>some discussion on this list, and it doesn't seem terribly
>inappropriate... sorry if it is!)

This is currently the "official" place.