[lxml-dev] confused newbie ;-)

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Chris Withers wrote:
> I've finally come around to trying out lxml2, so I googled for it and 
> ended up here:
> 
> http://codespeak.net/lxml/index.html#download

Hmm, when I google for "lxml", I get the homepage as first hit. But then,
Google isn't the same everywhere...


> - Why are there no links from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/0.9 to 
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml?

Because PyPI isn't very intelligent.


> - Why is 0.9 being returned as the only relevent search result?

No idea, honestly. But that's something you can ask on the catalog-sig list.
I'd like to hear what they have to say about it.

http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig


> - How come http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml returns a list with no other 
> information,

It lists all available versions, pretty much in the right order and all with
links to the download pages. What other information do you need?


> versus say http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailinglogger, which 
> returns the docs and a list of versions?

Not for me. I just see a single version with the downloadable archives on that
page. No link to any other version or any note thereof.


> PS: I did also try using easy_install, but that sucked down 2.1beta2 and 
> then whined that there was no C compiler. How can I teach easy_install 
> that I only want eggs where there is already a windows binary?

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#changing-the-active-version

Stefan