[Distutils] How to make easy_install handle platlibs?

[P.J. Eby]

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


>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.

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