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That isn't the takeaway I got. It was that Setuptools is broken, but so is pip and distutils2. Pip lost very worthwhile functionality that exists in setuptools,

by varikin 14y ago

That isn't the takeaway I got. It was that Setuptools is broken, but so is pip and distutils2. Pip lost very worthwhile functionality that exists in setuptools, namely binary eggs.

slurgfest 14y ago
Binary eggs aren't a good reason to trash pip, which otherwise works great. He really didn't say how distutils2 was broken, just expressed some sort of prejudice against it.
- masklinn 14y ago
  > aren't a good reason to trash pip Good thing that never happened then.
  - slurgfest 14y ago
    pip isn't broken just because it doesn't support a particular use case from setuptools.
    - masklinn 14y ago
      Again, it would be nice if you stopped making shit up on the spot, TFA didn't say anywhere that pip is "broken" or anything even remotely close to that.
the_mitsuhiko 14y ago
> That isn't the takeaway I got. It was that Setuptools is broken, but so is pip and distutils2. Pip lost very worthwhile functionality that exists in setuptools, namely binary eggs. The takeaway should be that it's very easy to miss usecases by accident when replacing tools with other tools.