At 11:11 AM 4/13/2009 -0700, Buck wrote:

On Apr 12, 12:46 pm, "P.J. Eby" <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote:
> >On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Andrew Straw
> ><<mailto:straw...@astraw.com>straw...@astraw.com> wrote:
> >On the other hand, sticking the egg into the place that distutils
> >uses when not under easy_install would fix this much more simply,
> >although from what I hear this would be a big change.
>
> For easy_install, yes.  For pip, probably not so much.  In fact, my
> guess would be that pip already supports this, as long as you can
> install from source, rather than from eggs.

Are you saying I should dump easy_install in favor of pip? I hadn't
heard of it till now.

If it meets your other use cases, I would say yes.

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