[Distutils] pip vs easy_install vs distutils2

[Barry Warsaw]

On May 29, 2010, at 09:12 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

>That's the point I am trying to express: it's "implicit, embed,
>installers in project's setup.py" vs "an installer globally installed,
>knowing how to install projects that follows a given standard"

I feel pretty firmly that the choice of installer should /not/ be left up to
the project's setup.py.  That's within the domain of the user, or by proxy,
their operating system.

-Barry
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