[Distutils] The future of invoking pip

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 at 04:06 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11 November 2015 at 06:35, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Windows Python 2 installations require manual PATH modifications
> > regardless, but it's more common for people to know how to make
> > "python -m pip install X" work, than it is for them to remember to
> > also add the "Scripts" directory needed to make "pip install X" work.
>
> ... and "py -m pip install X" works without any PATH modification on
> all Windows systems with the launcher installed (I can't recall if
> it's included with Python 2.7 - but if not, maybe it should be
> backported? There's a standalone version people can get as well).
>

While the discussion to try and get UNIX to adopt `py`  is nice, I think
that decision falls under python-dev's jurisdiction. So if people here
decide "we should be pushing for that" then that's great, but that means
someone needs to go to python-dev and say "distutils-sig is trying to solve
the issue of `pip` being ambiguous as to what Python installation it works
with and we thought making `py` a thing on UNIX was the best solution
forward for `py -m pip`". And if that's the case then the stop-gap is
`python -m pip`.
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