On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 09:25:31PM -0500, Michael Merickel wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So I'm confused. I thought Distribute was a rewrite of Setuptools, and
> > Pip was just a command-line front end. So there are really three
> > implementations of package management?
> 
> yes

Um.

pip *depends* on Distribute.

pip replaces easy_install which is just one part of Distribute.

IIRC pip used to work with Setuptools as well (instead of Distribute),
but I'm not sure it still does.

Marius Gedminas
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