[Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:11:38 -0700, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:

> Then why not include pip, easy_install, and this bash script I use to
> install packages into core? The more the merrier, right?
> Answer: None of these are standards, and as nick points out, there's
> issues with sysadmins, security, and other things. Not to mention
> they're fundamentally not part of the language.
> At the language summit, this was hashed out quite a bit. I think most
> everyone agreed that tools like easy_install, pip, virtualenv,
> zc.buildout, etc simply do not belong in core python.

Once PEP 376 is implemented, my suggestion is to at least link to these  
tools (if not write a paragraph) as way of pointing users to alternative  
package managers that uses the 'uninstall' API. A mention of PyPI would  
also be helpful.

-srid