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)
commit45dd7e25f82d47066740412a38d912805227d207
treef94f4888cf4f713b0527fc2e6017777dbdc72096
parente064ce8bfb25163eb60eed762d492d5f7eb7ac93
swc-installation-test-2.py: Prefer pip to easy_install

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