[Distutils] pip and virtualenv release candidates

[Marcus Smith]

pip-1.4rc3 and virtualenv-1.10rc4 are now available

the changes from the previous RCs:
  - a bug fix for a new use of urlparse (
https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/1032)
  - "pip list" doesn't ignore showing setuptools and pip anymore (although
"pip freeze" still does)
  - the wheel setuptools requirement was changed to ">=0.8"
  - updated installation instructions related to the release of
setuptools-0.8
    (http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html#requirements)

here's the gist of the RC install instructions again:

  $ curl -L -O https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/archive/1.10rc4.tar.gz
  $ tar zxf 1.10rc4.tar.gz
  $ python virtualenv-1.10rc4/virtualenv.py myVE
  $ myVE/bin/pip --version
   pip 1.4rc3


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:

> pip-1.4rc2 and virtualenv-1.10rc3 are available for testing from github.
>
> A few highlights:
>  - pip added support for installing and building wheel archives.
>    (
> http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/cookbook.html#building-and-installing-wheels
> )
>  - virtualenv is now using the new merged setuptools, and no longer
> supports distribute.
>  - pip now only installs stable versions by default, and offers a new
> --pre option to also find pre-releases.
>  - Dropped support for Python 2.5.
>
> Changelogs:
>  pip: http://www.pip-installer.org/en/release-1.4/news.html
>  virtualenv: http://www.virtualenv.org/en/release-1.10/news.html
>
> Download Links:
>  pip:
>   gz: https://github.com/pypa/pip/archive/1.4rc2.tar.gz
>     md5=0426430fc8a261c83bcd083fb03fb7d6
>   zip: https://github.com/pypa/pip/archive/1.4rc2.zip
>     md5=c86dc0d94ed787eadba6dceb06f1676f
>  virtualenv:
>   gz: https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/archive/1.10rc3.tar.gz
>     md5=b24cdf59b561acf26ae3f639098d5a34
>    zip: https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/archive/1.10rc3.zip
>     md5=a6ee1a1570a751aa50f95833d9898649
>
> Installation:
>  The easiest way to try them both and *not* affect your current system, is
> like so:
>  e.g. on Linux:
>   $ curl -L -O https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/archive/1.10rc3.tar.gz
>   $ echo "b24cdf59b561acf26ae3f639098d5a34  1.10rc3.tar.gz" | md5sum -c
>   1.10rc3.tar.gz: OK
>   $ tar zxf 1.10rc3.tar.gz
>   $ python virtualenv-1.10rc3/virtualenv.py myVE
>   $ myVE/bin/pip --version
>    pip 1.4rc2
>
>    *Note*: If instead, you choose to upgrade an existing pip (and
> setuptools), know this:
>     1) pip's wheel support requires setuptools>=0.8b2 (this will become
> final before pip is released final)
>     2) setuptools-0.8bx is not on pypi and can be found here:
> https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/downloads
>     3) Older pip's can not currently upgrade distribute to setuptools
> (until distribute-0.7.3 is released on ~July-7th)
>          (for more upgrade details:
> http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html#requirements)
>
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