pip-1.4rc2 and virtualenv-1.10rc3 are available for testing from github. A few highlights: - pip added support for installing and building wheel archives. ( http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/cookbook.html#building-and-installing-wheels ) - virtualenv is now using the new merged setuptools, and no longer supports distribute. - pip now only installs stable versions by default, and offers a new --pre option to also find pre-releases. - Dropped support for Python 2.5.
Changelogs: pip: http://www.pip-installer.org/en/release-1.4/news.html virtualenv: http://www.virtualenv.org/en/release-1.10/news.html Download Links: pip: gz: https://github.com/pypa/pip/archive/1.4rc2.tar.gz md5=0426430fc8a261c83bcd083fb03fb7d6 zip: https://github.com/pypa/pip/archive/1.4rc2.zip md5=c86dc0d94ed787eadba6dceb06f1676f virtualenv: gz: https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/archive/1.10rc3.tar.gz md5=b24cdf59b561acf26ae3f639098d5a34 zip: https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/archive/1.10rc3.zip md5=a6ee1a1570a751aa50f95833d9898649 Installation: The easiest way to try them both and *not* affect your current system, is like so: e.g. on Linux: $ curl -L -O https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/archive/1.10rc3.tar.gz $ echo "b24cdf59b561acf26ae3f639098d5a34 1.10rc3.tar.gz" | md5sum -c 1.10rc3.tar.gz: OK $ tar zxf 1.10rc3.tar.gz $ python virtualenv-1.10rc3/virtualenv.py myVE $ myVE/bin/pip --version pip 1.4rc2 *Note*: If instead, you choose to upgrade an existing pip (and setuptools), know this: 1) pip's wheel support requires setuptools>=0.8b2 (this will become final before pip is released final) 2) setuptools-0.8bx is not on pypi and can be found here: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/downloads 3) Older pip's can not currently upgrade distribute to setuptools (until distribute-0.7.3 is released on ~July-7th) (for more upgrade details: http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html#requirements) Offering Feedback: You can respond to this email, or log issues in our tracker: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues?state=open
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