[Distutils] How to make easy_install handle platlibs?

[Buck]

On Apr 12, 12:46 pm, "P.J. Eby" <p... at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> >On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Andrew Straw
> ><<mailto:straw... at astraw.com>straw... at 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.