On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:16 AM, PJ Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Richard Jones <richard@python.org> wrote:
The Fedora variant of Linux has had a separate program called "pip" (a Perl package installer) available for install for some time. The current Python "pip" program is installed as "pip-python". It is hoped that the Fedora community will resolve this issue by renaming the Perl installer.
A modest suggestion: renaming pip to "pypi" (Python Package Installer) will address this and other issues, especially if the 'pypi' command grows register/publish functions as well.
Unfortunately, this would just make the confusion with pypy worse, as well as put the community through yet another name change. Persisting with the "pip" name seems to be the best of the available options (the only wrinkle is that Perl tool sitting in the Fedora repos, but as far as we can tell that's just an old package that even Perl people don't use)
Yes, it puts pip in a privileged position, but really it's just going to be acknowledging the status quo. As soon as pip can handle multi-version installs, binaries, and plugin scenarios as well as easy_install can, there will be no reason to keep easy_install around or bother upgrading it to do TUF or whatever else comes down the pike. And I'm not aware of any other competition (buildout isn't really aimed at the same space), so I don't think there's any reason not to just bless "pip" as *the* "pypi" tool.
Yep, that's where all this is going (except we'll be keeping the pip name). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia