At 08:49 AM 3/15/2010 +1100, Nick Bower wrote:
Thanks but why would easy install go to pypi, ignore the obvious
download urls
It doesn't ignore them; it loads them, along with any found on "home
page" or "download" links from there. It just doesn't choose one to
use until it's seen all of them, in order to make sure it gets the
best match, rather than just the first match.
and proceed to an external wiki to text search for a (as
you point out broken) URL. Ie why not satisfy the dependency from the
pypi page alone?
As I said below, it has to do with the sort order for URLs that are
otherwise equally usable:
On 15/03/2010, at 3:18 AM, "P.J. Eby" <[email protected]> wrote:
easy_install is seeing this link and thinks it's preferable, due to
the way it sorts candidate URLs, and it isn't smart enough (yet) to
backtrack on broken links.
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