Many thanks, Phillip, for your quick and generous response. > Eggs are a binary distribution format, originally developed to support > user-installed plugins for systems like Chandler, Zope, etc. They aren't > a source distribution format; sdist works well enough for that and for > easy_install if you have a pure-Python package (or your users have C > compilers).
Oh joy. sdist is working fine--Leo is indeed a pure python program. > I'd suggest using the --show-response option so you can see what's > happening. Will do, assuming there is still a problem with uploading the .zip file. > here's the output from my attempt at downloading from the SF page: > > $ easy_install -nvf > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458 leo Excellent. I'll try again with the options you show. > Setuptools is currently at 0.6c6. There are a handful of known issues > and quirks remaining, but it is otherwise pretty darn stable. I'll consign the referenced post to the dustbin of history :-) Thanks again. I have lots of hope now. Edward -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward K. Ream email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
