[Python-Dev] Backporting ensurepip to 2.7, Which commands to install?

[Guido van Rossum]

That's not what I meant. Python 2.7 does install "python" unless you use
altinstall.
On Oct 3, 2014 5:33 PM, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

> Ok, so neither Python 2.7 nor Python 3.x’s ensure pip command will install
> a
> ``pip`` binary by default without a flag. That's fine with me, just wanted
> to
> make sure it made sense for Python 2.x. Thanks!
>
> On Oct 3, 2014, at 8:31 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>
> That is copying the (alt)install targets of Python's own Makefile, and I
> think those are exactly right.
> On Oct 3, 2014 3:07 PM, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>
>> I'm working on the backport of ensurepip to Python 2.7, and I realized
>> that
>> I'm not sure which commands to install. Right now by default pip (outside
>> of
>> the context of ensurepip) will install pip, pip2, and pip2.7 if installed
>> in
>> Python 2.7. In Python 3's ensurepip we modified it so that it would
>> install
>> pip3, and pip3.4, but *not* pip if it was an "install", and only pip3.4
>> if it
>> was an "alt install".
>>
>> My question is, does this behavior make sense for ensurepip in 2.7? Or
>> should
>> it also install the "pip" command if it is an "install"?
>>
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