[Distutils] distribute doesn't use pip?

[David Cournapeau]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 23:03, Tom Davis <tom at recursivedream.com> wrote:
>> Basically, the numpy folks have said they have no plans to support
>> easy_install because it uses eggs
>
> Yeah, that statement is somewhat nonsensical IMO.

The problem is not using eggs, but how they are installed by
easy_install/setuptools (flat vs non-flat). As pip install things from
sources, it should not cause the same issues. It seems Robert fixed
some of the issues, and every remaining one will be fixed in due time.

David