On 17 September 2013 12:21, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > On Sep 16, 2013, at 10:15 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> However, I just noticed that the PEP *doesn't* currently specify the >> effect of running "python -m getpip" when pip is already installed. I >> believe it should attempt to upgrade pip, so that in the normal course >> of events (i.e. just installing CPython maintenance releases without >> manually upgrading pip), then pip will be automatically upgraded to >> the latest version each time CPython itself is updated. > > TBH I just assumed it would say that pip is already bootstrapped, but I'm > OK with making it upgrade as well. My thinking was if you already had > pip then ``pip install --upgrade pip`` is easier but making the bootstrap > upgrade too does mean that installing a maintenance release will upgrade > your pip too which is kinda nice.
Yeah, that's the exact same thought process I went through :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
