[Python-ideas] Changing the default install location, script versioning (Packages and PEP 370)

[Paul Moore]

2009/7/20 Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com>:
> So python -m "setuptools.commands.easy_install" <args> or python
> `which easy_install` is a-ok for people? I find it much easier to tell
> someone "run easy_install" or "run pylint" rather than either one of
> the previous examples.

No, but "python -m easy_install" is fine. The fact that setuptools
doesn't provide a form designed for use with python -m doesn't mean
that there's a problem with the feature, just that setuptools wasn't
designed with it in mind.

Paul.