> On PyPI there is *a single* version not hidden of psycopg. On > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/psycopg2 there is a big fat link to a > "psycopg2-2.3.2.tar.gz" package.
easy_install doesn't consider this page at all (anymore). Instead, it considers the "simple" API, which lists the files uploaded to PyPI and the download urls alike. > There is really *no temptation to > guess*. Why does easy_install follow a page meant for human, > containing more than one link, and then download one of them at > random? It doesn't download at random. If no version is specified, it downloads the most recent version. > Is there a tool I can suggest to the users instead of easy_install to > install the correct version from pypi I normally use aptitude to install Python packages. In order to install from PyPI specifically, I use Google Chrome. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
