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On Tue Feb 24 2015 at 10:54:14 AM Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> wrote:

Hello all,
I wonder what the status of easy\_install is. I keep finding people
who needed to install something 'path.py' is the latest, who needed to
use pip, and couldn't get easy\_install to work. Should we tell people
that easy\_install is deprecated, or ask them to file bugs when
they could not get it to work, or ...

Tell people to use pip. Having ensurepip in Python 2.7 and 3.4 makes it as official as anything will be as the recommended tool to install projects. Otherwise easy\_install has nothing to do directly with python-dev so I don't think we can comment on a group as to what people should do in terms of bugs, etc.