[Distutils] The future of invoking pip

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 23:41:25 +0000
Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 November 2015 at 22:21, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > The actual question is: which problem are you trying to solve *that
> > current users are actually experiencing*?
> 
> Typically, people using "pip" to install stuff, and finding it gets
> installed into the "wrong" Python installation (i.e., not the one they
> expected). I'm not clear myself on how this happens, but it seems to
> be common on some Linux distros (and I think on OSX as well) where
> system and user-installed Pythons get confused.

Well, the problem is that "python -m pip" isn't any better. If you
don't know what the current "pip" is, then chances are you don't know
what the current "python" is, either.

(I'm not trying to deny the issue, I sometimes wonder what "pip" will
install into exactly, but removing the command in favour of a "-m"
switch wouldn't do any any good IMO, and it would make Python package
management "even more baroque" than it currently is)

Regarrds

Antoine.