[Distutils] Infinite easy_install loop for mathdom==0.7.1

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Jun 22 01:00:23 CEST 2006


At 12:31 AM 6/22/2006 +0200, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3_Kwiatkowski?= wrote:
>Sorry for flooding the list with my questions, but I think I found
>another problem with easy_install. Calling it on "mathdom==0.7.1"
>invokes an infinite sourceforge download loop. I've given up after
>watching "Download failed" messages for about 20 minutes. So I can't
>prove this loop is infinite. ;-)

The problem is the broken URL for mathdom 0.7.1 provided on the mathdom 
PyPI page.  Sourceforge has no such file.  Please let the author know about 
the problem.  In the meantime:

easy_install 
http://cheeseshop.python.org/packages/source/m/mathdom/mathdom-0.7.1.tar.gz

should get you the package that is available.  (It's not using the 2.4 egg 
because again, you're on Python 2.3.)


>BTW, is there any kind of tracker for setuptools, so I could use that
>instead of writing directly to this list?

No; the intent is to allow everyone to learn from the answers, and thus 
better support others.  This wouldn't happen as well with a walled-off tracker.



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