Port request: pip_select

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

A lot of the other python ports have *_select ports to go with them to let users create links to the version they want to use. However, pip doesn't have one though. It'd be nice to have a pip_select port to fix this.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

I've never understood why people want select ports for python modules. Is there a problem with just adding Python.framework/Versions/X.Y/bin to your PATH?

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

No, I suppose there isn't a problem with that. Still, many python modules do already have *_select ports to go with them, so it'd be useful to have some sort of standard policy in place to deal with whether they get one or not.

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

I came across a user on the mailing lists confused about why there wasn't a pip command after installing py26-pip: ​https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2013-March/032140.html

It could have been useful to have had a pip_select port to suggest that he use here.

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Now that stromnov has added himself as a maintainer for py-pip as of r106753, could someone add him on cc for this ticket please?

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Replying to egall@…:

I came across a user on the mailing lists confused about why there wasn't a pip command after installing py26-pip: ​https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2013-March/032140.html

It could have been useful to have had a pip_select port to suggest that he use here.

Here's another one: ​https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2013-June/032915.html

[irony42@…]

Cc Me!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Has duplicate #40210.

[petrrr]

Cc Me!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to egall@…:

Now that stromnov has added himself as a maintainer for py-pip as of r106753, could someone add him on cc for this ticket please?

[stromnov (Andrey Stromnov)]

Committed at r115843 and r115844.