[Distutils] Python people want CPAN and how the latter came about

[Lennart Regebro]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 17:48, ssteinerX at gmail.com <ssteinerx at gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess what I mean is that I'd like to make sure that while moving to pip, that easy_install, as a command name, not as an implementation, gets brought along in the same way that Distribute has brought along setuptools compatibility.  IOW in such a way that the improvements in the new code are available without breaking any existing configurations/scripts/workflows etc.

easy_install is a command, basically a wrapper around setuptools
install functionality. I doubt many scripts would use it in any more
complex way than calling it, in which case moving to pip is a matter
of replacing the command.

> I imagine it would be useful to have a facade because easy_install is familiar and ubiquitous and shouldn't be left rotting in place as pip takes over the world and becomes the SDPTJLCOB any more than Distribute left the rest of setuptools exposed to cause problems once Distribute was installed.

I don't even understand that sentence, let alone what you are trying
to say. Distribute is a setuptools fork. Pip is not an easy_install
fork. I don't really see the parallell.

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