[yocto] Python pip

[Paul Eggleton]

On Monday 09 November 2015 10:11:30 Alejandro Hernandez wrote:
> 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

My question would be would renaming it to "pip3" be consistent with how this 
situation is handled on mainstream distributions?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre