[Distutils] Expectations on how pip needs to change for Python 3.4

[Donald Stufft]

On Jul 15, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

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> On Jul 15, 2013, at 6:22 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 
>> On 15 July 2013 23:09, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
>> > For simple cases yes, but we have
>> > bdist_wininst and bdist_msi for those, and they are clearly not enough.
>> 
>> but they are really widely used -- maybe when binary wheels become
>> ubiqitous, I'll stop using them, but I'm no command line phobic, and I
>> usually go first to look for an installer on Windows.
>> 
>> The killer issue with bdist_wininst and bdist_msi is that they don't work with virtualenvs. I was a fan of them till I started using virtualenv, at which point they become totally useless :-(
>> 
>> I'm not against someone writing a GUI. But it won't be me :-)
>> 
>> Paul
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> There is something like 200 total bdist_msi on PyPI and 5k bdist_wininst.
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To put numbers into perspective, there are ~180k total files uploaded to PyPI.

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