Hey, I was recently trying to do an all user installation of the packaging tools and (though I know this may change), was unable to use get-pip.py to install pip user locally as per PEP 370.
Currently, instead of doing the ideal: # install pip $ curl https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py | python - --user I instead had to download the pip tarball, unpack it, and use setup.py to manually pass in --user as follows: # install pip $ curl -O https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/pip-1.3.1.tar.gz $ tar xvfz pip-1.3.1.tar.gz $ cd pip-1.3.1 $ python setup.py install --user I think this happens because there is no code to pass down command line options into the pip bootstrap() called on de-serialisation. By contract this is possible to install setuptools locally: # install stuptools curl https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/0.7.8/ez_setup.py | python - --user Am I right in thinking this is a problem? If so, but in case patching this is a non starter as it will be replaced by a bootstrap script installing a wheel, perhaps that may need to respect the --user argument? Thanks, Alex J Burke. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
