On 21 August 2013 15:48, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > For people watching at home, upgrading pip really isn't this scary :-) > I'm > > just making it sound scary (a) because I don't know the precise upgrade > > instructions for setuptools and (b) because you need to do setuptools and > > pip separately, and use python -m pip on Windows to upgrade pip (neither > of > > which are immediately obvious). > > Is it perhaps safer to suggest the following? > a) uninstall pip/setuptools/distribute > b) run ez_setup.py > c) run get-pip.py > > That's what I just did and it worked fine. Perhaps there could be one > script that does steps a), b) and c) to smooth the path for anyone > upgrading? It probably is. I've heard concerns that people want to avoid suggesting manual uninstalls and having to download the setup scripts. But it seems simple enough to me. (What would I know, I just run virtualenv and leave it at that :-)) Glad it worked in the end, anyway, and sorry if my instructions made it harder than it needed to be. As regards distribute, I suspect that the reason you hit issues is that if you have a setuptools that's older than 0.7 (or whatever the first merged version was) then an upgrade can end up jumping through some hoops and going through a "dummy" distribute version that's there to handle the fork/re-merge somehow. I honestly don't know how it all works, I'm just going off what I saw on some of the discussions on pypa-dev at the time. It all sounded very clever to me, but a bit fragile. I'm a simple soul, and prefer to just wipe it out and reinstall, so I zoned out after a while:-) I doubt the details matter to you now, though... Paul
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