[Distutils] easy_install -f "<SF URL>"

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:19 AM 5/2/2006 +0100, John J Lee wrote:
>Attempting to install pyExcelerator, whose PyPI entry is out of date, I
>tried pointing easy_install at this SF page:
>
>http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=134081&package_id=148078

It worked fine for me.


>That times out (maybe due to the SF advertising pause?).  Maybe it can be
>worked around?

Not really; the SVN versions of easy_install do automatically retry failed 
downloads, however.  As Ian says, SF mirrors fail a *lot*.