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It seems to me that easy_install was forked, renamed to pyinstall, forked again and renamed to pip. Is that right? Are there any sources for it?

Are easy_install / pyinstall still used?

(I have found https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyinstall which seem to support this)

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  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3220404/why-use-pip-over-easy-install – Eric Wilson Feb 18 '15 at 18:18
  • [Differences between distribute, distutils, setuptools and distutils2?](http://stackoverflow.com/q/6344076/562769) is a nice resource, but it does not answer the relationship between those three package managers. – Martin Thoma Feb 18 '15 at 18:18
  • I suspect that the answer to the question of whether `easy_install` is still used is: it is often used to install `pip` – Eric Wilson Feb 18 '15 at 18:19

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easy_install still exists, but is largely deprecated due to basically not being as good as pip (see discussion here). pyinstall is just the old name for pip; it's obsolete.

More discussion on pip vs. easy_install here.

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