[Distutils] find_links when developing

[Ian Bicking]

Kevin Dangoor wrote:
> The TurboGears setup.cfg now has this in it:
> [easy_install]
> find_links=http://www.turbogears.org/download/index.html
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/snapshots
> 
> Trailing slash aside, people seem to be having trouble when they do a
> setup.py develop or setup.py install with it not finding the snapshot
> packages at peak.telecommunity. Is there something I'm missing about
> this? I managed to get it to go on my machine yesterday...

Since those options only apply to the easy_install command, then I 
wouldn't expect them to be used when running setup.py develop.  Unless 
that triggers an easy_install command internally?

Anyway, I think I suggested a change earlier, that find_links.txt could 
be put in the Egg metadata (.egg-info directory) and easy_install (and 
other installation processes?) could read from there.  That might 
provide an indirect resolution to this issue.

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