ftp.logilab.fr versus pypi.python.org

[Blair Zajac]

On May 4, 2010, at 7:14 AM, Arthur Lutz wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at ...> writes
>> On May 3, 2010, at 20:16, Blair Zajac wrote:
>> 
>>> Some companies block outgoing FTP so to download a package I need an
>>> HTTP site.
> 
> 
> For the problem of accessing through ftp, we also serve the same files through
> http, I don't understand what the problem is.

My initial attempts to find the files via HTTP failed, I just replaced ftp with http in the URL and I got 404's, so I looked at pypi for the tarballs.

>> I don't know why they've done this. I recommend asking the people in 
>> charge of
>> both servers why they're not
>> serving identical files.
>> 
> 
> Logilab's software is published in both places. The process in the two cases 
> is not exactly the same (for example for pypi, we use the setuptools automagic
> upload functionnality)... I admit that the md5sum is not the same and we're
> looking into that... firing up meld on the two uncompressed versions doesn't
> seem to pickup any differences. 
> 
> The fact that not all version of astn are present on pypi is because there 
> used to be a time when astng was only published on logilab.org. 
> 
> Right now I don't see the differences between our http and ftp ... what was 
> the difference ?

There was/is no difference between the two.  I was just comparing the files on your FTP site with the files on the pypi HTTP site.

Regards,
Blair