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Re: pip grabs tar.gz file instead of whl?

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  Re: pip grabs tar.gz file instead of whl? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-16 05:56 +0100

#90723 — Re: pip grabs tar.gz file instead of whl?

On 16/05/2015 05:28, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 5/16/2015 12:12 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
>> The whole point is that setup.py never works because it can't find VS
>> despite the fact that I know I've got the correct version installed.  If
>> I download a whl file, pip installs that version perfectly. If I try to
>> get pip to download and install the very same file it gave the zipfile
>> error I referred to earlier.  Hopefully all the problems with pip will
>> get ironed out, or where do we go, distutils3? :(
>
> Unlike distutils, pip is being actively maintained and improved.  It
> must have a comm channel for bug reports and suggestions.
>

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