That's still the recommended way to install Distribute (for Python) [1] -- though they at least don't recommend you pipe it to sh directly. Composer (for PHP)

That's still the recommended way to install Distribute (for Python) [1] -- though they at least don't recommend you pipe it to sh directly. Composer (for PHP) [2] also uses this install method, but you can just download the Phar file from their Web site directly -- all the sh script does is check PHP settings and dependencies. [1]: http://pythonhosted.org/distribute/ http://pythonhosted.org/distribute/ [2]: http://getcomposer.org/ http://getcomposer.org/