On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:25 AM, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 02:38 PM 10/28/2010 -0700, Tom Miller wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to install GoogleCL using easy_install on a Mac. Here's what I >> see: >> >> $ easy_install googlecl >> Searching for googlecl >> Reading <http://pypi.python.org/simple/googlecl/> >> http://pypi.python.org/simple/googlecl/ >> Reading <http://code.google.com/p/googlecl> >> http://code.google.com/p/googlecl >> >> Best match: googlecl 0.9.11-win32 >> Downloading < >> http://googlecl.googlecode.com/files/googlecl-0.9.11-win32.zip> >> http://googlecl.googlecode.com/files/googlecl-0.9.11-win32.zip >> >> Processing googlecl-0.9.11-win32.zip >> error: Couldn't find a setup script in >> /var/folders/++/++3tbk++6+0++4RjPqRgNE+-SNw/-Tmp-/easy_install-3Y5tAg/googlecl-0.9.11-win32.zip >> >> There's a source package on pypi that apparently gets skipped over: < >> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/googlecl/0.9.11> >> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/googlecl/0.9.11 >> >> >> plus the Download URL field is filled in with a link directly to the >> correct file. Instead, easy_install grabs the first download listed in the >> project home's download links, which happens to be a .zip with an executable >> for Windows users. >> >> What's going on here? >> > > By the naming conventions setuptools uses, a file named > "googlecl-0.9.11-win32.zip" is a source package for version "0.9.11-win32" > of "googlecl", and thus is used in preference to the lower-versioned "< > http://googlecl.googlecode.com/files/googlecl-0.9.11.tar.gz > >googlecl-0.9.11.tar.gz". > > If you named that file, say, "googlecl-win32-0.9.11.zip" instead, then this > confusion would not occur. > > > Is there a way to indicate the correct file, or does the package >> description need to be updated? >> >> Thanks, >> - Tom >> _______________________________________________ >> Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >> > > Great, thanks. I guess there's no way to tell easy_install to look for a specific extension? Or to use the file hosted at pypi? Thanks again, - Tom
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