[Distutils] easy_install question

Collin Winter collinw at gmail.com
Fri Apr 28 00:47:19 CEST 2006


On 4/27/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> The problem is that you've uploaded distributions for two different
> projects: one named "functional-C", and the other named
> "functional-Py".  Since neither one is "functional", EasyInstall keeps looking.

Would EasyInstall prefer names like functional-0.6-Py* instead?

Even with the name change, though, my real question remains: how would
EasyInstall decide between, say, functional-0.6-Py.tar.gz and
functional-0.6-C.tar.gz (or similarly-named eggs)?

Collin Winter


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