[Distutils] The future of invoking pip

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Thu Nov 5 22:34:57 EST 2015


On 6 November 2015 at 15:49, 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.

Why not? (Ignore the language I wrote my pseudocode in, an actual
thing would be a Python script that install would turn into a .exe)

-Rob



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