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| -rwxr-xr-x | EasyInstall.txt | 46 |
1 files changed, 44 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/EasyInstall.txt b/EasyInstall.txt index b0341e88..753baf65 100755 --- a/EasyInstall.txt +++ b/EasyInstall.txt @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ or directory (found in the installation directory). If you want to delete the currently installed version of a package (or all versions of a package), you should first run:: - easy_install -m PackageName + easy_install -mxN PackageName This will ensure that Python doesn't continue to search for a package you're planning to remove. After you've done this, you can safely delete the .egg @@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ below, and also the section on the `Package Index "API"`_. Password-Protected Sites ------------------------- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If a site you want to download from is password-protected using HTTP "Basic" authentication, you can specify your credentials in the URL, like so:: @@ -1218,6 +1218,48 @@ Release Notes/Change History ============================ 0.6final + * Fixed AttributeError under Python 2.3 when processing "HTTP authentication" + URLs (i.e., ones with a ``user:password@host``). + + * Fixed bogus AttributeError when no local or downloadable packages are + available + + * Fix for recent Sourceforge downloading changes + + * Handle .exe's containing .pyd or .dll files installed as "data" on win32 + + * Extract copies of hardlinked and symlinked files in tarballs when extracting + source + + * Support HTTP servers that return multiple 'Content-Length' headers + + * Support user/password credentials in Subversion (svnserve) URLs + + * Fixed problems accessing /dev/null inside the script sandbox, and the sandbox + swapping the ``open`` and file`` builtins. + + * Fixed skipping extraction of files or directories containing '..' in their + names + +0.6c11 + * Fix installed script .exe files not working with 64-bit Python on Windows + (wasn't actually released in 0.6c10 due to a lost checkin) + +0.6c10 + * Fix easy_install.exe giving UAC errors on Windows Vista + + * Support for the most recent Sourceforge download link insanity + + * Stop crashing on certain types of HTTP error + + * Stop re-trying URLs that already failed retrieval once + + * Fixes for various dependency management problems such as looping builds, + re-downloading packages already present on sys.path (but not in a registered + "site" directory), and semi-randomly preferring local "-f" packages over + local installed packages + +0.6c9 * Fixed ``win32.exe`` support for .pth files, so unnecessary directory nesting is flattened out in the resulting egg. (There was a case-sensitivity problem that affected some distributions, notably ``pywin32``.) |