[yocto] Python pip

[Alejandro Hernandez]

On 05/11/15 08:25, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2015-11-05 07:14, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>> Hi Gary,
>>
>> On Thursday 05 November 2015 05:39:21 Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> Just curious, does anyone know why OE-core has python3-pip
>>> but python-pip is relegated to meta-oe?
>>
>> I think it has to do with pip being supplied as part of the standard 
>> python 3
>> distribution from 3.4 onwards. I think for simplicity's sake it might be
>> argued that python-pip could be in the same place though.
Yes, in fact, python3-pip was included on oe-core after the upgrade to 
python3.4 since it's now a requirement, I agree, we probably should 
include python-pip on oe-core too
>
> Thanks, I'll consider sending a patch set for that.
>
> Sadly, at this point, both packages can't be installed at the
> same time as they both call the result "/usr/bin/pip".  Maybe
> in keeping with the python/python3 naming, the python3 version
> should be installed as pip3?

python3-pip recipe had to be created to avoid an issue with the default 
pip installation by python3.4, its now handled by distutils3, if its 
only a matter of changing the binary name afterwards from pip to pip3 I 
see no problem doing this, I am hoping this solves it, but just 
mentioning that we already had some issues with this, because of the 
"defaults" python3 expects