Python too complex ?!?!?!

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Dennis Lee Bieber schrieb:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:47:37 +0100, "Diez B. Roggisch"
> <deets at nospam.web.de> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
> 
>> BTW, you can download eggs and install them from files - so while 
>> teaching easy_install how to deal with proxies (are these still used by 
>> anyone - I thought that was in the 90ties... ) certainly would be good, 
>> it isn't necessary.
>>
> 	Company firewall blocks practically anything that doesn't come down
> from a web-browser...

Which is a totally different thing from a proxy. And I'd think that 
nowadays most proxies are transparent.

> 
> 	I've never been able to figure out how to install a downloaded egg
> -- the installer, even with the file in the same directory, still seems
> to try to find a web copy and dies on the firewall.

easy_install <egg>

works for me. Of course you need to install dependencies. It might even 
work to do

easy_install <egg1> <egg2> ....

but I don't know for sure anymore.

Diez