[Distutils] Myghty.org down borked easy_install pylons
Phillip J. Eby
pje at telecommunity.com
Wed Jan 24 16:43:57 CET 2007
At 06:11 AM 1/24/2007 -0600, skip at pobox.com wrote:
> Robert> Now that www.myghty.org is back up, I see that the CheeseShop
> Robert> tarball is picked up eventually. I believe that easy_install
> Robert> checks all of the various sources to try to find a best match
> Robert> (for some definition of "best"). Of course, I would consider it
> Robert> a bug that an exception raised while trying to fetch one
> Robert> possible source stops the entire process, particularly when a
> Robert> matching tarball has already been found.
>
>So, Phillip, any thoughts on this?
I've changed this in SVN to issue a warning instead, if the page being
retrieved is merely a source of links, rather than an actual download.
You can now update to the fixed version with "easy_install setuptools==dev"
or "easy_install setuptools==dev06".
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