[reportlab-users] ReportLab 2.3 is out!

[Christoph Zwerschke]

Andy Robinson schrieb:

> 2009/2/6 Christoph Zwerschke <cito at online.de>:

>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/reportlab/2.0 is still active which has

>> http://www.reportlab.org/downloads.html as download page and the daily

>> snapshot is obviously the latest version it can find there.

> 

> So easy_install parses our HTML and finds the most recent timestamped

> file on it? How utterly fragile and moronic.


Yes, it scans the links in the HTML code. But the selection is done by 
interpretation of the name of the URLs (which can contain version, 
checksum etc.) and introspection of the packages, not by timestamp.

There is some documentation here:
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#making-your-package-available-for-easyinstall
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#package-index-api

Daily snapshots should be built like this:
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#egg-info-examples

-- Christoph