On 21 August 2013 15:57, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21 August 2013 15:48, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Is it perhaps safer to suggest the following? >> a) uninstall pip/setuptools/distribute >> b) run ez_setup.py >> c) run get-pip.py > > 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 :-))
I walked right into that one: I definitely could have used a virtualenv for this. However I couldn't have used a virtualenv to update my system pip so it would support wheel installation. > Glad it worked in the end, anyway, and sorry if my instructions made it > harder than it needed to be. No they didn't. There was no point when I didn't know how to revert everything with 'rm -r'. > 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... No they don't. But I'm with you on the uninstall/reinstall thing. That would be my recommendation to anyone who needs to upgrade. Oscar _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
