[Distutils] Distutils / Setuptools on Windows: Can we use local or UNC filesystems as an argument to --find-links

[Fadhley Salim]

Phillip,

Thanks for your help - still no go!

Any time I give it a web URL (e.g. http://something) it works fine. If I
give it something else, it seems to get confused - there's no evidence
that it's even looking at my folder. 

I'm trying to do something like this:

easy_install -m calyon-tools==1.0-r2008-0630-trunk-3968
--find-packages="//sald441/webapps/eggs/tools_egg/"

The output is:

------------------------
interrupted
Searching for calyon-tools==1.0-r2008-06-30-trunk-3968
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/calyon-tools/
Download error: (10060, 'Operation timed out') -- Some packages may not
be found
!
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/calyon-tools/
Download error: (10060, 'Operation timed out') -- Some packages may not
be found
!
Couldn't retrieve index page for 'calyon-tools'
Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/
Download error: (10060, 'Operation timed out') -- Some packages may not
be found
!
No local packages or download links found for
calyon-tools==1.0-r2008-06-30-trun
k-3968
error: Could not find suitable distribution for
Requirement.parse('calyon-tools=
=1.0-r2008-06-30-trunk-3968')
------------------------

But just to confirm the folder definitely can be read from within
python:

>>> import os
>>> os.listdir(r"//sald441/webapps/eggs/tools_egg/")
['calyon_tools-1.0_r2008_06_30_trunk_3968-py2.4.egg']
>>>

Furthermore I can easy install that file explicitly - it definitely does
install:

D:\WORKSP~1\PYTHON~2\calyon_egg\dist>easy_install -m
\\sald441\webapps\eggs\tool
s_egg\calyon_tools-1.0_r2008_06_30_trunk_3968-py2.4.egg
Processing calyon_tools-1.0_r2008_06_30_trunk_3968-py2.4.egg
Copying calyon_tools-1.0_r2008_06_30_trunk_3968-py2.4.egg to
d:\python24\lib\sit
e-packages
Installing start_inspector.bat script to d:\Python24\Scripts
Installing runbatch-script.py script to d:\Python24\Scripts
Installing runbatch.exe script to d:\Python24\Scripts
Installing make_launchers-script.py script to d:\Python24\Scripts


Sal

-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip J. Eby [mailto:pje at telecommunity.com] 
Sent: 12 August 2008 17:17
To: Salim, Fadhley (CALYON); distutils-sig at python.org
Subject: RE: [Distutils] Distutils / Setuptools on Windows: Can we use
local or UNC filesystems as an argument to --find-links

At 04:41 PM 8/12/2008 +0100, Fadhley Salim wrote:
>What about using a network folder, e.g. a UNC path? Were you able to 
>get such a thing working ever?

I've heard of people using network folders; I'm not sure I've personally
tried a UNC path.  Keep in mind that command-line quoting/escaping can
foul up your backslashes, though, so I would suggest trying using '/' in
place of '\' in your command line.  That is, '//server/share' instead of
'\\server\share'.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Phillip J. Eby [mailto:pje at telecommunity.com]
>Sent: 12 August 2008 16:15
>To: Salim, Fadhley (CALYON); distutils-sig at python.org
>Subject: Re: [Distutils] Distutils / Setuptools on Windows: Can we use 
>local or UNC filesystems as an argument to --find-links
>
>At 03:46 PM 8/12/2008 +0100, Fadhley Salim wrote:
> >Has anybody had any luck using the --find_options argument to 
> >easy_install with a local folder (e.g. on a Windows C: Drive) or a 
> >network folder, for example
> >
> >easy_install --find-links="http://server/egs" myegg==1.0.1 ( that 
> >sort of thing works fine )
>
>So should this:
>
> >easy_install --find-links="c:\myeggs\" myegg==1.0.1
>
>The file:// urls can work too, but they work differently than just 
>using a directory filename; they'll be checked at a later stage of
processing.
>And of course, they're harder to get right.  :)

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