On 13 July 2013 18:51, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > Could we just start to move away from an executable script and start > promoting rather aggressively -m instead? It truly solves this problem and > since the results are tied to the Python executable used (i.e. where > something gets installed) it disambiguates what Python binary pip is going > to work with (something I have trouble with thanks to Python 2 and 3 both > being installed and each with their own pip installation). I realize older > Python versions can't do this (I believe 2.6 and older can't for packages) > but at least in the situation we are discussing here of bundling pip it's > not an issue. > > > Also looking at what already ships with Python. > > idle, idle2, idle2.7 > smtpd.py, smtpd2.py, smptd2.7.py > pydoc, pydoc2, pydoc2.7 > 2to3, 2to3-2, 2to3-2.7 > > This is also the convention anywhere someone does versioned scripts in a > Python package in the ecosystem. PEP439 is there to streamline the process > so that python dependencies are much easier to install and there's a > smaller barrier to "entry" so that projects like Django can give simple > instructions for dependencies instead of needing to opt not to have > dependencies or have to give instructions on how to install the installer. >
None of these commands work at the command line in a base Python install on Windows. They are all obscure enough that nobody cares (or they are GUI apps that have a start menu entry provided, i.e. Idle) - that won't be the case for pip. Paul.
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