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19th August 2009 - Link Blog

easy_install no longer working with SourceForge-hosted projects? Unsurprising, since installation software (which is often run as root) that crawls the web and scrapes HTML pages for download links is a horrible, horrible idea.

Posted 19th August 2009 at 11:38 am

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