[Distutils] What does it mean for Python to "bundle pip"?

[Donald Stufft]

On Aug 23, 2013, at 12:47 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> numpy-1.7.1-cp27-cp22m-win32.whl
>> numpy-1.7.1-cp27-cp22m-win32-sse.whl
>> numpy-1.7.1-cp27-cp22m-win32-sse2.whl
>> numpy-1.7.1-cp27-cp22m-win32-sse3.whl
> 
> I'm still confused -- how would "pip install numpy" know which of
> these to install?

Most likely pip would just ignore anything that has a variant it doesn't understand. So it would only see the first one as an available download. However an alternative installer that understands the variants could use the additional information to select one of the SSE optimized downloads.

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