Donald Stufft <donald <at> stufft.io> writes: > > curl https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py | python
Well it doesn't work on Windows, which would be a reasonable objection to using that specific approach. > But for various reasons many projects have decided that expecting people to > install the tools is difficult, especially for beginners and that simply documenting > the command to install it was not enough. If it's that obvious, then why did Richard spend so long writing a bootstrap script, drafting PEP 439 etc.? Do you have any numbers on the "many projects"? Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig