easy_install error - no eggs?

[James Walker]

I got an error when I tried to use easy_install on a new Mac running OS 
X 10.5.3:

Searching for mercurial
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/mercurial/
Couldn't find index page for 'mercurial' (maybe misspelled?)
Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/Mercurial/
Reading http://www.selenic.com/mercurial
Best match: mercurial 1.0.1
Downloading http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/release/mercurial-1.0.1.tar.gz
Processing mercurial-1.0.1.tar.gz
Running mercurial-1.0.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir 
/tmp/easy_install-25oo-n/mercurial-1.0.1/egg-dist-tmp-9av51L
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
mercurial.lsprof: module references __file__
mercurial.templater: module references __file__
mercurial.version: module references __file__
No eggs found in 
/tmp/easy_install-25oo-n/mercurial-1.0.1/egg-dist-tmp-9av51L (setup 
script problem?)


I was able to install Mercurial using a binary package instead (thanks, 
Lee Cantey) but I'm curious about this.