[Distutils] The future of invoking pip

[Robert McGibbon]

Hi,

My perspective as a user of pip, but not a developer, is that having the
command line executable `pip` is much preferable to `python -m pip`. Most
of the use cases that militate against the command line executable seem to
be issues that face developers and ultra-power-users (keeping track of many
versions of pip installed, etc). But many casual users, I think, just have
one version of python/pip installed, and benefit from having the
easy-to-call executable. They're also the least capable of adding new
script wrappers and bash aliases.

Just my $0.02

Best,
-Robert

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com>
wrote:

>
> On Nov 5, 2015, at 5:04 PM, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>
> wrote:
>
> cat > /usr/bin/pip << EOF
> python -m pip $@
> EOF
>
> Seriously - isn't the above entirely sufficient?
>
>
> Since I don't think anyone has pointed this out yet:
>
> No, it's not sufficient.  It doesn't work on Windows.
>
> -glyph
>
>
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