On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/10/9 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: >> Ian Bicking <ianb <at> colorstudy.com> writes: >>> >>> Someone mentioned that easy_install provided some things pip didn't; >>> outside of multi-versioned installs (which I'm not very enthusiastic >>> about) I'm not sure what this is? >> >> http://pip.openplans.org/#differences-from-easy-install >> >> If it's obsolete the website should be updated... > > Specifically, combine "only installs from source" with "might not work > on Windows" and the result is pretty certainly unusable for C > extensions on Windows. You can pretty much guarantee that the average > user on Windows won't have a C compiler[1], and even if they do, they > won't be able to carefully line up all the 3rd party C libraries > needed to build some extensions. > > Binary packages are essential on Windows.
I'll admit I have some blindness when it comes to Windows. I agree binary installation on Windows is important. (I don't think it's very important on other platforms, or at least not very effective in easy_install so it wouldn't be a regression.) I note some other differences in that document: > It cannot install from eggs. It only installs from source. (Maybe this will > be changed sometime, but it’s low priority.) Outside of binaries on Windows, I'm still unsure if installing eggs serves a useful purpose. I'm not sure if eggs are any better than wininst binaries either...? > It doesn’t understand Setuptools extras (like package[test]). This should be > added eventually. I haven't really seen Setuptools' extras used effectively, so I'm unsure if it's a useful feature. I understand the motivation for extras, but motivated features aren't necessarily useful features. > It is incompatible with some packages that customize distutils or setuptools > in their setup.py files. I don't have a solution for this, and generally easy_install does not perform much better than pip in these cases. Work in Distribute hopefully will apply to this issue. -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org | http://topplabs.org/civichacker _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
