> questions about pip, but my understanding is that lack of support for > installing from eggs was intentional because binary eggs were kind of > broken for the platforms Ian cared about (for the same reasons > platform-specific wheels are still troublesome today on Linux/OSX). >
thanks carl, we crossed in mid-air. you didn't mention it helping the "requirements file" feature of dependency overrides? Am I wrong on that? > (For one thing, for a long time setuptools' pth stuff sort of broke > virtualenv; because setuptools forces installed eggs to the top of > sys.path, it meant that you couldn't override something installed as an > egg globally with something installed as a non-egg inside a virtualenv. > I fixed that a long time ago with an explicit workaround in virtualenv.) > there's a similar situation now with easy_installed packages overriding pip --user installs Marcus
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