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Modify setuptools and pip docs for OSX #466
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Clarify a little more what setuptools allows you to do, what pip is, and what advantages it has.
I'm fairly certain (although it's been a while and I could be wrong) that easy_install is present regardless of setuptools and is in fact provided by distutils. Assuming that's correct, then there's no need to mention it because we're mentioning setuptools. Further, I feel the documentation was better as it was written before with one caveat:
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Setuptools' documentation says that they bundle Could you clarify whether this is correct? Perhaps I'm not seeing something correctly. |
I believe easy_install is only available via setuptools/distribute. |
@sigmavirus24 Does that clear up the inclusion of If you still think the documentation is better as-is, feel free to close the PR. Thanks! 🍰 |
Happily, when you ran ``brew install python``, Homebrew also installed **pip**. | ||
Pip allows for installation and uninstallation of packages, and is actively | ||
maintained. | ||
Homebrew also installs Setuptools and `pip` for you. |
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Please remove "also" from this sentence and use two backticks (`) around pip, e.g.,
``pip``
@mandarg sorry for the confusion. There are just a couple of edits that I'd like you to make before I merge this. Thanks |
No problem, put in the changes you suggested :) |
Looks good! I'll merge it in the morning |
Modify setuptools and pip docs for OSX
Thanks @mandarg! 🍰 |
Clarify a little more what setuptools allows you to do, what
pip
is, and what advantages it has overeasy_install
provided by Setuptools.This makes the docs sound somewhat opinionated, but simplifies things a little for new users. If we mention Setuptools,
easy_install
should be mentioned at least; and then some information towards why a lot of people will say "just use pip!".Let me know if some wording should be changed, or if you think the documentation as existing is better.