[Python-Dev] easy_install ? (original) (raw)

Laura Creighton lac at openend.se
Tue Feb 24 17:52:13 CET 2015

In a message of Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:44:20 +0000, Paul Moore writes:

On 24 February 2015 at 16:30, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

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 easyinstall 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. Bug reports would go to the setuptools project, but I agree, "use pip" is a better suggestion. And if pip won't work, it would be good to know why. Paul

I want to recommend that people not use easy_install. This has been my personal preferred solution for many years now. But I did not want to say such a thing if there was a known use case, one that I never have, that made easy_install better.

Ok. will go back to my personal integrity which matches what python-dev recommends. Thank you for answering.

Laura (answering questions in python-list and as webmaster)

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