On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 12:45:27PM -0800, Ramon Felciano wrote: -> I reinstalled everything and found one possible problem: should twill be -> automatically installing a preferred version of mechanize? I was a bit -> surprised to not see anything printed to the console after the -> "Processing dependencies for twill" line...
Yep. twill uses a patched version of mechanize. Recently, the patches have decreased in number (as I've fed them back to John Lee, the author of mechanize) but there is still one patch that is necessary to robust HTML parsing. At some point I'll write a detailed explanation of why the patch is necessary, in the hopes of getting it into mechanize, but John asked me to wait a few months to make sure that it worked well. (It appears to: no one has ever mentioned any problems with it.) In any case, when I first started working on twill, easy_install was not very well tested. Now I feel better about relying on it to handle dependencies... One solution to the twill+mechanize vs mechanize situation is for me to rename the mechanize package included with twill. Any thoughts? cheers, --titus _______________________________________________ twill mailing list [email protected] http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/twill
