Description

even if there is a static link, it still seems not to work: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MoinMoin/1.8.1.

Steps to reproduce

1. Get easyinstall (a CPAN like program for python) from http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall

2. Install, and try to install moinmoin
3. It fails because moinmoin needs to provide a direct link to download the moinmoin package

myers@gir:~$ easy_install.py moinmoin
Searching for moinmoin
Reading http://www.python.org/pypi/moinmoin/
Couldn't find index page for 'moinmoin' (maybe misspelled?)
Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
Reading http://www.python.org/pypi/
Reading http://www.python.org/pypi/MoinMoin/1.3.4
Reading http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/
Reading http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinDownload
No local packages or download links found for moinmoin
error: Could not find distribution for Requirement('moinmoin', [], ())

The workaround does not work either:

$ easy_install moin-1.6.0.tar.gz
Processing moin-1.6.0.tar.gz
error: Couldn't find a setup script in moin-1.6.0.tar.gz

Example

Details

Workaround

• Download tarball and install via "easy_install.py <tarball>"

Does not work, see above.

• This will not work because we may not link to the tar ball directly (SourceForge limitation). But reading the output, it might know how to handle SourceForge. So I will set the correct link into PyPi.

Whatever this means, it does not fix this bug.

Discussion

It would be great to be able to install an up to date version of moinmoin without working around all those packetmanagers one already uses.

To answer the question in the save comment: it will take as long as someone needs to provide a basically working (and tested) setup script for easy_install. If you want some soon, do it! And this page should be a FeatureRequest.

Plan

The download seems not to be via Sourceforge any more, so it should be possible to setup "easy_setup moinmoin" now.

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• Status: New again.

CategoryMoinMoinNoBug