[Python-Dev] easy_install ?

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Feb 24 17:48:43 CET 2015


On 02/24/2015 08:44 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 24 February 2015 at 16:30, Brett Cannon 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.

And if/when pip doesn't work, a bug may need to be filed the project trying to be installed.

--
~Ethan~

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