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

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