[Distutils] pypi and easy_install

Giampaolo Rodola' billiejoex at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 14:26:06 CET 2007


Oh, I'm sorry,
yestarday night it was very late (5:00 AM) and I completely
misunderstood what you said.
Thanks for your help, I'm going to rename the tarball.

2007/12/20, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> At 04:47 AM 12/20/2007 +0100, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
> >You're right, the setup.py included in the tarball reports an invalid
> >download url.
>
> That's not what I said at all.
>
> >I fixed the issue in setup.py and used "setup.py register" for
> >uploading the new package on pypi again.
> >As you can see from here:
> >http://pypi.python.org/pypi?name=pyftpdlib&version=0.2.0&:action=disp...
> >...now the download url is correct, but the problem still remains. :-\
>
> Please read my previous message again, and you will see the answer to
> your question.  easy_install can only install files that were
> generated using the distutils; it does not support arbitrarily-named
> archives with arbitrary contents.
>
>


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