On Jul 19, 2010, at 10:20 PM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > On 19 Jul, 01:28 pm, nickphol...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The main mirror for the twisted download is down, this is causing >> easy_install to hang for ages and fail when I try and install: > > For Twisted 10.1, we took the extra step of loading the tarball to PyPI > to address this issue. Apparently that was pointless, though? Because > easy_install doesn't care about the downloads available on PyPI? It'd > be good to know if this is the case, so we can consider whether or not > to waste the time for the next release.
As an experiment, I took the _additional_ step of updating the "download_url" field to point at the PyPI URL, <http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/T/Twisted/Twisted-10.1.0.tar.bz2>. Before I did this, easy_install selected the download link from twistedmatrix.com. Now, it reliably selects the PyPI URL first. Looking at the history now, I can see that therve actually updated the download_url to something else already, but now I can't see what he set it to. Maybe it was pointing at "twistedmatrix.com" and that's why it was screen-scraping? I am not sure how to *remove* the download_url, though; it might be interesting to see what PyPI does in that case. Can anyone with some more direct knowledge of how PyPI works comment on this? (Cross-posting to the main Twisted list because this is of general interest.)
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