[Distutils] New Design Landed in Warehouse

[Chris Barker]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Wolfgang Maier <
wolfgang.maier at biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:


> Useful content starts only 2/3 down the first page. The large "pip
>> install six" snippet probably doesn't deserve being that proeminent
>> (or being there at all), and is ironically redundant with the "how do
>> I install this?" link just below.
>>
>>
> My favorite is "pip install pip". Seriously, is this installation
> one-liner going to be configurable by package authors eventually or will it
> just always say pip install no-matter-what?


This is a good point -- is there a need for generic install instruction on
every package page?

If so -- it should be small :-)

Also -- maybe not the thread to bring this up in -- but maybe it should be::

   python -m pip install package_name

-CHB


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