[PEAK] setuptools distribution tarball name

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 12:21 PM 7/2/2007 +0400, Timur Izhbulatov wrote:
>And if I do declaration with direct link to the tarball
>
>     install_requires = [
>         'smbpasswd >= 1.0',
>
>     ],
>     dependency_links = [
>
>'http://barryp.org/static/software/download/py-smbpasswd/1.0.1/py-smbpasswd-1.0.1.tar.gz',
>     ],
>
>easy_install ignores the link because the file name doesn't match 
>and fails to find the tarball.
>
>Is it still possible to somehow handle this dependency automatically?

Try adding "#egg=smbpasswd-1.0.1" to the end of the dependency link 
that points directly to the tarball.

You might also suggest that the author either officially change the 
package name to py-smbpasswd, or else not rename the tarball to make 
it look like it is.  :)