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@python.org> wrote:

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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.

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)