Bazaar version in PyPI

[John Arbash Meinel]

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> The last time I read easy_install code, it would scrape the pages pointed
> at by the `Home Page` and `Download URL` fields of pypi. 
> 
> Possibly it can be told to behave better, apparently there are people
> who would like to use it or variants like pip.  
> 

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bzr
It looks like https://launchpad.net/bzr/+download is what it is
scraping. And then it finds 2.4b3 available.

The original page certainly says 2.3.3, but +download lists 2.4b3 which
would sort ahead of 2.3.3 if it weren't for being a beta.

> For what it's worth
> 
>   $ pip search bzr
> 
>   bzr                       - Friendly distributed version control system
>     INSTALLED: 2.1.2
>     LATEST:    2.3.3
> 
>   $ pip -E virtual_env install bzr
>   ...
>   Downloading bzr-2.4b3.tar.gz (7.3Mb): 7.3Mb downloaded
>   ...
> 
> 
> Seems like a bug in pip to me.
> 
> 
> Wouter van Heyst
> 

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