From: Jason R. Coombs Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 02:40:49 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Update docs to reflect resurrection of Setuptools over Distribute X-Git-Tag: v3.3.6rc1~17 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=13266fb5c8e4a58c33209f8d97f86469c3245d94;p=python Update docs to reflect resurrection of Setuptools over Distribute --- diff --git a/Doc/library/venv.rst b/Doc/library/venv.rst index 96ca2f5155..be0cad4231 100644 --- a/Doc/library/venv.rst +++ b/Doc/library/venv.rst @@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ Creating virtual environments A venv is a directory tree which contains Python executable files and other files which indicate that it is a venv. - Common installation tools such as ``Distribute`` and ``pip`` work as + Common installation tools such as ``Setuptools`` and ``pip`` work as expected with venvs - i.e. when a venv is active, they install Python packages into the venv without needing to be told to do so explicitly. Of course, you need to install them into the venv first: this could be - done by running ``distribute_setup.py`` with the venv activated, + done by running ``ez_setup.py`` with the venv activated, followed by running ``easy_install pip``. Alternatively, you could download the source tarballs and run ``python setup.py install`` after unpacking, with the venv activated.