[Distutils] EasyInstall: SF installs
Phillip J. Eby
pje at telecommunity.com
Mon May 30 05:40:55 CEST 2005
At 08:45 PM 5/29/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>Attached is a patch so it can install from Sourceforge Download pages,
>choosing a random mirror.
Yay!
I've incorporated more or less the same patch, after an unsuccesful
experiment trying to pull the 'refresh:' from the HTTP headers. (Firefox
showed it in the "View Page Info", so I thought it was there, and in fact
it is only in the HTML. Oh well.)
So, have you changed your opinion at all about the value of screenscraping
as a way to build a Python package tool? I notice you've sent two patches
today that apply regexes to HTML. :)
I am a *little* concerned about the sourceforge support, given that they
could change their download system any time, and if easy_install is
distributed with Python that might make it harder to upgrade. But, at
least people have the option of subclassing.
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