[Distutils] The future of invoking pip

[Ionel Cristian Mărieș]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

> Currently pip installs a number of commands like ``pip``, ``pipX`` and
> ``pipX.Y`` where the X and X.Y corresponds to the version of Python that
> pip
> is installed into. Pip installs into whatever Python is currently
> executing it
> so this gives some ability to control which version of Python you're
> installing
> into (``pip2.7`` for Python 2.7 etc).
>

​Why not consider having a "pip" launcher?​ Seems the obvious thing to me -
python has the "py" launcher on windows and it works great!

Eg: "pip -3" to launch pip using python3, "pip -3.5" to launch pip using
python3.5 - just like the "py" launcher.



Thanks,
-- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro
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