[Distutils] question about future pip capabilities

Darren Dale dsdale24 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 23:03:48 CET 2009


2009/12/10 Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi>:
> 10.12.2009 19:18, Darren Dale kirjoitti:
>> * The documentation states that easy_install will be deprecated, and
>> that we should use pip. Isn't this premature, given the current
>> discrepancy between the capabilities and platform support of pip and
>> easy_install?
>>
>
> The next major distribute release (the one that nixes easy_install) is
> relatively far in the future, and we (well, I at least) expect pip to have
> matured enough by then.

What gives you that confidence? Ian Bicking just responded that there
is currently not a timeline for full windows support, installing from
binaries on windows, or project extras.

Darren


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