Re: [Distutils] Sourceforge changed HTML again...

2006-01-26 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 08:34 PM 1/26/2006 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: >So far my experiences downloading this way have been very poor -- it fails >more often than not, often stalling indefinitely. What are other people's >experiences? If my experience is typical, I think it would be better to >go back to the regex

Re: [Distutils] Sourceforge changed HTML again...

2006-01-26 Thread Ian Bicking
Phillip J. Eby wrote: >>>Hi all. Ian Bicking reported an issue with Sourceforge's download process >>>changing again; I've updated setuptools in SVN but haven't made a new >>>release yet. If you need the fixed version, update to the development >>>version via "ez_setup.py setuptools==dev" for now

Re: [Distutils] Sourceforge changed HTML again...

2006-01-26 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 05:39 PM 1/23/2006 +0100, Ronald Oussoren wrote: >On 23-jan-2006, at 17:31, Phillip J. Eby wrote: >>A little experimentation with the socket module shows that I can >>get the >>full list of mirror IPs from Python, so I've changed setuptools in >>SVN to >>just randomly select one to use, which sh

Re: [Distutils] Sourceforge changed HTML again...

2006-01-23 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 23-jan-2006, at 17:31, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > A little experimentation with the socket module shows that I can > get the > full list of mirror IPs from Python, so I've changed setuptools in > SVN to > just randomly select one to use, which should fix the sticking > problem on > Windows

Re: [Distutils] Sourceforge changed HTML again...

2006-01-23 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 08:27 AM 1/23/2006 -0500, Charlie Moad wrote: >On 1/18/06, Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > > I checked what the NetBSD "pkgsrc" system does, and it uses the fact > > > that there is a .dl.sourceforge.net subdomain for mirrors. I > > > investigated further an

Re: [Distutils] Sourceforge changed HTML again...

2006-01-23 Thread Charlie Moad
On 1/18/06, Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > I checked what the NetBSD "pkgsrc" system does, and it uses the fact > > that there is a .dl.sourceforge.net subdomain for mirrors. I > > investigated further and found that dl.sourceforge.net is a round-robin > > (or r

Re: [Distutils] Sourceforge changed HTML again...

2006-01-18 Thread Ian Bicking
Phillip J. Eby wrote: > I checked what the NetBSD "pkgsrc" system does, and it uses the fact > that there is a .dl.sourceforge.net subdomain for mirrors. I > investigated further and found that dl.sourceforge.net is a round-robin > (or random?) DNS for each of the mirrors in the subdomain, so t

Re: [Distutils] Sourceforge changed HTML again...

2006-01-17 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 02:09 PM 01/17/2006 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: >Since they have a 5-second delay in downloading, I assume they really >are trying to get ad clicks (since 1 or 0 seconds would do just as well, >and direct links would of course be better for everyone). OTOH, it >never hurts to ask; maybe someone c

Re: [Distutils] Sourceforge changed HTML again...

2006-01-17 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 07:54 PM 01/17/2006 +0100, Giovanni Bajo wrote: >Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all. Ian Bicking reported an issue with Sourceforge's download process > > changing again; I've updated setuptools in SVN but haven't made a new > > release yet. If you need the fixed version, upd

Re: [Distutils] Sourceforge changed HTML again...

2006-01-17 Thread Ian Bicking
Kevin Dangoor wrote: >>This is a probably a FAQ, but maybe the Sourceforge guys can be talked into >>providing some machine-friendly way for downloading files? > > > The problem is that a machine doesn't click on ads. (Or, at least, > isn't supposed to :) Since they have a 5-second delay in down

Re: [Distutils] Sourceforge changed HTML again...

2006-01-17 Thread Kevin Dangoor
On 1/17/06, Giovanni Bajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all. Ian Bicking reported an issue with Sourceforge's download process > > changing again; I've updated setuptools in SVN but haven't made a new > > release yet. If you need the fixed versi

Re: [Distutils] Sourceforge changed HTML again...

2006-01-17 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. Ian Bicking reported an issue with Sourceforge's download process > changing again; I've updated setuptools in SVN but haven't made a new > release yet. If you need the fixed version, update to the development > version via "ez_setup.py setupt