[Distutils] pip, virtualenv, setuptools on Windows

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 07.07.2014 15:29, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 7 July 2014 14:25, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>> On 07.07.2014 15:20, Vinay Sajip wrote:
>>> ISTM the click-on-an-MSI-and-everything-works may be OK for a "system-wide" installation for a given version of Python, but I don't see how that can work with venvs (it's the same problem as for bdist_wininst installers). How would one pass the venv (to install into) to a point-and-click installer, without using a command line? Drag-and-drop onto a venv folder is a possibility, but that's not exactly the conventional usage idiom for MSIs.
>>
>> Perhaps I wasn't clear enough: I am talking about bootstrapping
>> a Windows system Python installation with pip, setuptools and
>> virtualenv.
>>
>> Once this is done, virtualenvs can be setup as usual from the
>> command line. The problem is getting to that point easily :-)
> 
> The MSI for Python 3.4 includes both pip and venv by default, which
> pretty much covers this scenario. Setuptools is also included but
> that's officially an implementation detail (as the core devs don't
> want to "bless" setuptools to the extent that distributing it with
> Python would imply). Regardless, "pip install setuptools" does the
> job, and you have the environment you're describing.
> 
> If you want virtualenv rather than venv, "pip install virtualenv" gets that.
> 
> Am I missing something?

Yes: Installers for Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3 :-)

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