swc-installation-test-2.py: Prefer pip to easy_install
authorW. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Sat, 30 Nov 2013 19:08:20 +0000 (11:08 -0800)
committerW. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Sat, 30 Nov 2013 19:08:20 +0000 (11:08 -0800)
For virtual-pypi-installer.  easy_install is part of Setuptools [1],
which was dead for several years.  The Distribute fork took over, but
has since been merged back into a revitalized Setuptools (since
Setuptools v0.7 [2], tagged on 2013-06-02 [3]).  Pip >= v1.4 actually
requires a modern Setuptools, not Distribute [4].  Pip also improves
on easy_install [5], which does not currently support uninstalling
packages [6].

[1]: http://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/
[2]: http://pythonhosted.org/distribute/
[3]: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/commits/tag/0.7
[4]: http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html#id6
[5]: http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/other-tools.html#easy-install
[6]: http://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/easy_install.html#uninstalling-packages

swc-installation-test-2.py

index 7f55b337c40a909f3b4c480a79912d1d9ec5837b..581d725a729e5c9567ca9959fc85dcc2d6a48ea2 100755 (executable)
@@ -853,8 +853,8 @@ for name,long_name,dependencies in [
             'safari',
             )),
         ('virtual-pypi-installer', 'PyPI installer', (
-            'easy_install',
             'pip',
+            'easy_install',
             )),
         ]:
     CHECKER[name] = VirtualDependency(