On Jul 17, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem issue remaining is recognising when we need to do this. In terms 
> of code paths, pip install -U pip is no different from (for example) pip 
> install -U flask. But it needs to be handled specially just because it's pip. 
> And it *doesn't* need to be handled specially if it's "python -m pip install 
> -U pip". That's not a Windows issue, though, I was just using the Windows 
> issue to put off having to think about it :-)

OTOH it doesn't *hurt* to do it so if a conditional is hard to sort out (I'm 
thinking explicitly about pip vs python -mpip) we can just genericize it.

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