[Distutils] pip vs easy_install vs distutils2

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Mon May 31 20:49:57 CEST 2010


On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Carl Meyer <carl at oddbird.net> wrote:
> Lennart Regebro wrote:
>> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 19:02, Carl Meyer <carl at oddbird.net> wrote:
>>> Nope, pip's used --record on installation for years, and the above has
>>> been true since the moment uninstall landed in pip. There are enough
>>> different ways things can get installed that it's not surprising that
>>> some discussions may have been confused ;-)
>>
>> That may be it. Forcing --record in Python 3.2 would be a step forward then? :-)
>
> Would be, except that it's a setuptools-only option.

No, that's a distutils option.

But setuptools has its own implementation, but they seem like clone as
far as I can tell (I didn't digg into that yet)

Tarek


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