On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 10:59:20AM +0100, Jonathan Hartley wrote: > On 01/04/2010 02:39, Jon Ribbens wrote: >> I strongly advise not using easy_install, it's awful. > > Living up to your domain name, I see.
Someone else has equivocal.co.uk I'm afraid :-p > I might have preferred the gentler 'has been superseded'. :-) If it's been superceded, it's by "python setup.py install", which actually preceded it and worked better. As far as I can tell, easy_install is trying to solve an already-solved problem, and doing it worse than the existing solution. > I know that's not much bother, but in case it enhances my > understanding, are there specific reasons why 'easy_install pip' is > harmful in this context? See the other message I posted just now. _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
