Why use pip over easy_install?

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00:50 Accepted answer (Score 317)
04:14 Answer 2 (Score 604)
05:27 Answer 3 (Score 249)
06:27 Answer 4 (Score 171)
06:46 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3220...

Question links:
[tweet]: http://twitter.com/jperras/statuses/1816...
[fault lie with PyPI and package authors mostly]: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/catalog...

Accepted answer links:
[the initially accepted one from Daniel Roseman]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3220572/9084...
[Christoph Gohlke's Extension Packages for Windows]: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlib.../
[virtualenv]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv
[the official docs]: https://docs.python.org/3/installing/ind...
[Python Packaging User Guide]: https://packaging.python.org/
[Installing Python Modules]: https://docs.python.org/3/installing/ind...

Answer 2 links:
[introduction to pip]: https://pip.readthedocs.org/en/1.1/other...

Answer 3 links:
[pip]: http://pip.openplans.org/
[Current State of Packaging]: https://the-hitchhikers-guide-to-packagi...
[The Hitchhiker's Guide to Packaging v1.0]: https://the-hitchhikers-guide-to-packagi...
[distribute's documentation]: http://pythonhosted.org/distribute/
[Setuptools]: http://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/
[distribute]: http://pythonhosted.org/distribute/
[pip]: http://pip.openplans.org/
[pip]: http://pip.openplans.org/
[Distribute]: http://pythonhosted.org/distribute/
[Setuptools]: http://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/
[Setuptools]: http://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/

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