[Python-Dev] easy_install ?

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Feb 24 17:44:20 CET 2015


On 24 February 2015 at 16:30, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> 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.

Bug reports would go to the setuptools project, but I agree, "use pip"
is a better suggestion. And if pip won't work, it would be good to
know why.

Paul


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