[Distutils] New Design Landed in Warehouse

[Wes Turner]

On Nov 23, 2015 10:46 AM, "Chris Barker" <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Wolfgang Maier <
wolfgang.maier at biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Useful content starts only 2/3 down the first page. The large "pip
>>> install six" snippet probably doesn't deserve being that proeminent
>>> (or being there at all), and is ironically redundant with the "how do
>>> I install this?" link just below.
>>>
>>
>> My favorite is "pip install pip". Seriously, is this installation
one-liner going to be configurable by package authors eventually or will it
just always say pip install no-matter-what?
>
>
> This is a good point -- is there a need for generic install instruction
on every package page?
>
> If so -- it should be small :-)
>
> Also -- maybe not the thread to bring this up in -- but maybe it should
be::
>
>    python -m pip install package_name
>

I find this form preferable, especially for [shell] scripting, because:

* $PATH: ./bin/python[3.5] and ./bin/pip may not be in the same path (e.g.
system, virtualenv, condaenv, --prefix)

  type python
  type pip
  which python
  which pip
  python -m site
  python -m site --user-base
  python -m site --user-site

* declare -rx PYTHONBIN="${VIRTUAL_ENV}/bin/python"

  "${PYTHONBIN}" -m pip install -U pip
  "${PYTHONBIN}" -m site

https://docs.python.org/2/library/site.html

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