At 11:11 AM 4/13/2009 -0700, Buck wrote:

On Apr 12, 12:46 pm, "P.J. Eby" <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote:

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On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Andrew Straw <<mailto:straw...@astraw.com>straw...@astraw.com> wrote: On the other hand, sticking the egg into the place that distutils uses when not under easy_install would fix this much more simply, although from what I hear this would be a big change.

For easy_install, yes. For pip, probably not so much. In fact, my guess would be that pip already supports this, as long as you can install from source, rather than from eggs.

Are you saying I should dump easy_install in favor of pip? I hadn't heard of it till now.

If it meets your other use cases, I would say yes.