[Distutils] Sourceforge changed HTML again...

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 07:54 PM 01/17/2006 +0100, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> > Hi all.  Ian Bicking reported an issue with Sourceforge's download process
> > changing again; I've updated setuptools in SVN but haven't made a new
> > release yet.  If you need the fixed version, update to the development
> > version via "ez_setup.py setuptools==dev" for now.  Thanks.
>
>This is a probably a FAQ, but maybe the Sourceforge guys can be talked into
>providing some machine-friendly way for downloading files?

They have already done it, and I've changed setuptools to use it now (as of 
r42088).  I've now removed all of the code originally contributed by Ian to 
parse SourceForge's "human user" HTML and simply preprocess 
prdownloads.sf.net URLs to a similar path on dl.sourceforge.net, which is a 
round-robin DNS for the various mirrors.  This cuts two page fetches out of 
the process and eliminates any HTML scraping dependencies.  As long as SF 
doesn't get rid of the *.dl system, this should continue to work no matter 
how much the HTML frontend changes.