使用pypiserver安装Python egg文件

Question

I have to be missing something simple, but I have just set up a pypiserver (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypiserver) and have been unable to use it to install egg files. It will serve tarballs (tar.gz files), but seemingly not eggs. When I request the egg via "pip install" the pypiserver records an HTTP 200 (it records a 303 when I give it a bogus package name), but the pip install responds with "No distributions at all found for ".

Am I missing something or is this simply not supported? If not, what would be a recommended alternative for a quick and easy pypi server? There seem to be several options.

Thanks

Answer 1

I think pip always downloads sources and compiles them. Easyinstall can install from eggs as well.

See Pip compared to easyinstall :

pip doesn't do everything that easy_install does. Specifically:

It cannot install from eggs. It only installs from source. (In the future it would be good if it could install binaries from Windows .exe or .msi – binary install on other platforms is not a priority.)