[Distutils] The future of invoking pip

[Donald Stufft]

On November 6, 2015 at 4:59:39 PM, Ionel Cristian Mărieș (contact at ionelmc.ro) wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:
>  
> > Eg: "pip -3" to launch pip using python3, "pip -3.5" to launch pip using
> > python3.5 - just like the "py"
> >
> >
> > Isn't this basically what the third option is? Just the launcher is also
> > the entire program.
> >
>  
> If you mean the initial mail you have send, I only saw two proposals:
> `python -mpip` and something with zipfiles. Not sure if having a zipfile
> around counts as a launcher, you wouldn't call something a launcher if it
> contains the target completely no?
>  

Well, it’s not really a launcher no, but you’d do ``pip -p python2 install foo`` or something like that. It’s the same UI. Having just a “launcher” I think is actually more confusing (and we already had that in the past with -E and removed it because it was confusing). Since you’ll have different versions of pip in different environments (Python or virtual) things break or act confusingly.

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Donald Stufft
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