[Distutils] The future of invoking pip

[Wolfgang Maier]

On 05.11.2015 22:08, Donald Stufft wrote:
>
> * Having pip need to be installed into each Python means you end up with a
>    bunch of independent pip installations which all need to be independently
>    updated. We've made this better by having recent pips warn you if you're not
>    on the latest version, but it's not unusual for me personally to have 30+
>    different installations of pip on my personal desktop. That isn't great.
>

For the record, it is possible to have just one pip accessed by multiple 
installed Pythons right now.
Just add a .pth file to site-packages of each Python with an entry to 
the same shared directory. Install pip into one Python, then mv the pip 
and the accompanying dist-info folder to that shared directory.
It's a bit of effort to set up the first time, but you'll only have one 
pip to update afterwards.