On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > Disclaimer: I'm on windows (Win7 x64) > > Following the instructions at: > > http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/dev/gitwash/following_latest.html > > I got the following (rather unhelpful) error message: > > C:\dev\src>git clone git://github.com/numpy/numpy.git > Cloning into numpy... > github.com[0: 207.97.227.239]: errno=No error > fatal: unable to connect a socket (No error) > > > After a bit of googling I got the vague impression that this may possibly > be to do with work blocking access? Fortunately I was able clone the read > only https url - https://github.com/numpy/numpy > > C:\dev\src>git clone https://github.com/numpy/numpy.git > Cloning into numpy... > remote: Counting objects: 60461, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (13476/13476), done. > remote: Total 60461 (delta 47928), reused 58235 (delta 46157) > Receiving objects: 100% (60461/60461), 19.41 MiB | 2.66 MiB/s, done. > Resolving deltas: 100% (47928/47928), done. > > I would suggest that since they are "the instructions if you just want to > follow the latest NumPy source, but you don’t need to do any development" > that providing the https url as an alternative would be helpful. Perhaps > something like: > > > From the command line: > > git clone git://github.com/numpy/numpy.git > > You should now have a copy of the code tree in the new `numpy` directory. > If this doesn't work you can try the alternative read-only url: > > git clone https://github.com/numpy/numpy.git
Done in the doc wiki, thanks for the suggestion. Ralf _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
