[Distutils] pip vs easy_install vs distutils2

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Mon May 31 09:55:03 CEST 2010


On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 22:57, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, I am still proposing to merge both projects and to have two kinds
> of releases:
>
> - distutils2 + pip included (maybe a renamed script)

I don't think this is necessary. Sure, distutils without an installer
is kinda crippled, but the people who want to install distutils2 are
capable of installing pip as well. :-) And an install script, like the
one for distribute, could download and install both anyway.

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