At 03:41 PM 12/18/2008 -0700, Jason R. Coombs wrote:
Should I post a bug in bugtracker on this issue?
No. easy_install requires that a URL path ends with the target
filename. It *must* be able to determine what it's downloading
BEFORE it actually downloads it, since it would otherwise have to
download every possible file for a package in order to determine
which one was a suitable version, python version, platform, etc. And
it's not reasonable to expect it to grow special cases for every site
that wants to hide the filename in the query string attached to a CGI script.
If someone needs to have their files processed by a script, they
could always make the path something like:
downman.py/pythonutils-0.2.3.zip
Using either PATH_INFO or mod_rewrite or something similar, at which
point easy_install can tell it's looking at a source zipfile, rather
than a .py script.
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