[Python-Dev] easy_install ?

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue Feb 24 2015 at 10:54:14 AM Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:

> Hello all,
> I wonder what the status of easy_install is.  I keep finding people
> who needed to install something 'path.py' is the latest, who needed to
> use pip, and couldn't get easy_install to work.  Should we tell people
> that easy_install is deprecated, or ask them  to file bugs when
> they could not get it to work, or ...
>

Tell people to use pip. Having ensurepip in Python 2.7 and 3.4 makes it as
official as anything will be as the recommended tool to install projects.
Otherwise easy_install has nothing to do directly with python-dev so I
don't think we can comment on a group as to what people should do in terms
of bugs, etc.
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