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Diffstat (limited to 'EasyInstall.txt')
| -rwxr-xr-x | EasyInstall.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/EasyInstall.txt b/EasyInstall.txt index 404789c4..f8f5ca57 100755 --- a/EasyInstall.txt +++ b/EasyInstall.txt @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ download the setuptools egg. If you can't use APS, or don't have internet access at all, you will need to first download the appropriate ``.egg`` file from the `setuptools PyPI page -<http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/setuptools>`_ using a computer with internet +<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools>`_ using a computer with internet access. Place the egg in the same directory as ``ez_setup.py`` on the target computer before running it. @@ -794,9 +794,9 @@ Command-Line Options installed package to work, like manually adding it to ``PYTHONPATH`` or to ``sys.path`` at runtime. -``--index-url=URL, -i URL`` (New in 0.4a1) +``--index-url=URL, -i URL`` (New in 0.4a1; default changed in 0.6c7) Specifies the base URL of the Python Package Index. The default is - http://www.python.org/pypi if not specified. When a package is requested + http://pypi.python.org/simple if not specified. When a package is requested that is not locally available or linked from a ``--find-links`` download page, the package index will be searched for download pages for the needed package, and those download pages will be searched for links to download @@ -1236,6 +1236,9 @@ Release Notes/Change History 0.6c7 * ``ftp:`` download URLs now work correctly. + * The default ``--index-url`` is now ``http://pypi.python.org/simple``, to use + the Python Package Index's new simpler (and faster!) REST API. + 0.6c6 * EasyInstall no longer aborts the installation process if a URL it wants to retrieve can't be downloaded, unless the URL is an actual package download. |