Merge pull request #38 from pybee/phildini-fix-releases

Use the pybee-hosted version of the releases list

briefcase/app.py

@@ -4,15 +4,10 @@
 import json
 import random
 import re
+import requests
 import shutil
 import sys
 import uuid
-from urllib.error import URLError
-
-try:
-    from urllib.request import urlopen
-except ImportError:  # Python 2 compatibility
-    from urllib2 import urlopen
 
 from datetime import date
 from distutils.core import Command
@@ -113,11 +108,11 @@ def finalize_options(self):
         pip.utils.ensure_dir(self.download_dir)
 
     def find_support_pkg(self):
-        api_url = 'https://api.github.com/repos/%s/releases' % self.support_project
+        api_url = 'https://pybee.org/static/api/%s/releases.json' % self.support_project
 
         try:
-            releases = json.loads(urlopen(api_url).read().decode('utf8'))
-        except URLError:
+            releases = requests.get(api_url).json()
+        except requests.exceptions.RequestException:
             print()
             print("We had trouble connecting to Github to look for appropriate")
             print("support packages. This can happen when you have tried too many")
@@ -127,7 +122,7 @@ def find_support_pkg(self):
 
         candidates = []
         for release in releases:
-            if release['tag_name'].startswith("%s.%s-" % (sys.version_info.major, sys.version_info.minor)):
+            if release['tag_name'] and release['tag_name'].startswith("%s.%s-" % (sys.version_info.major, sys.version_info.minor)):
                 for asset in release['assets']:
                     if asset['name'].endswith('.tar.gz') and self.platform in asset['name']:
                         candidates.append((release['created_at'], asset['browser_download_url']))

setup.py

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
         'cookiecutter >= 1.0',
         'voc >= 0.1.1',
         'setuptools >= 27.0',
+        'requests < 3.0',
     ],
     license='New BSD',
     classifiers=[