Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations
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Re: Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations
#2Nifty, always nice to save a little time on future installs
Re: Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations
#3Nifty, always nice to save a little time on future installs
More importantly, it's nice to assume your users will have pip available no matter what (assuming we all move to Python 3. One day...)
Re: Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations
#4Nifty, always nice to save a little time on future installs
More importantly, it's nice to assume your users will have pip available no matter what (assuming we all move to Python 3. One day...)
Python 3.4 seems it will be true to it's promise.
See the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6581053
Re: Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations
#5Good to hear. The situation with python packaging has seemed kind of chaotic for awhile. The setuptools/distribute merger will hopefully standardize things from here on out.
Re: Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations
#6Glorious day! As a person who went to PyCon and experienced first-hand the state of Python packaging, this is excellent news. Good luck to the Python devs in the days to come.
Re: Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations
#7Glorious day! As a person who went to PyCon and experienced first-hand the state of Python packaging, this is excellent news. Good luck to the Python devs in the days to come.
Yes! and with pip you can uninstall packages while with easy_install you can't
Re: Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations
#8I'm not really a pythonist so I'm not 100% aware of the consequences of this, but as someone who deploys Python-based software every now and then, this just seems to make sense to me.
About time really.
Re: Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations
#9Look at the trails Node + NPM have blazed. That's the right move.
Next up: Local package installs.
Re: Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations
#10This isn't very big news, in that virtualenv already provides pip in each new env, and you should not be using pip outside virtualenv -- unless it's to install virtualenv!