[Distutils] Overly picky about file URLs

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:34 AM 5/12/2007 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
>The local_open function in setuptools.package_index is used to open
>file URLs.  A file URL pointing to a directory is treated as non
>found unless it ends in a "/".  This seems overly restrictive to me.
>Would anyone object if the restriction was relaxed?

That restriction is so that the generated relative URLs work 
correctly.  In order to relax that restriction, you'll need to change 
the generated URLs in the index, if a trailing / wasn't used.  I just 
punted on that case to keep it simple, but feel free to patch it if 
you like (trunk and branch, of course).