On Jun 18, 2015 8:17 AM, "Thomas Güttler" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Some packages have docs like this: > > {{{ > Installation > ========== > > easy_install foo > > or > > pip install foo > }}} > > Maybe I am too new in the python packaging world, but > for my eyes calling easy_install looks deprecated. > > My goal is to make the python world more friendly for newcomers. > > Are there still reason to use easy_install and not pip?
easy_install does not install https://pypi.python.org/pypi/backports.ssl_match_hostname ; so, before Python 2.7.9, easy_install does not check SSL certs correctly: * https://docs.python.org/2/library/ssl.html * http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0466 TLDR definitely use pip w/ less than Python 2.7.9. > > I would like to make the docs more readable and remove > the word "or" from them. Things should be straight forward > for newcomers and experts know how to help themselves. > > What do you think? > > For people loving details: this mail checks if there is a general consensus. It does not > matter which packages I refer to. > > Regards, > Thomas Güttler > > > > -- > Thomas Guettler http://www.thomas-guettler.de/ > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
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