[OH-Dev] Need some feedback regarding the pip/easyinstall mission

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

I agree that it probably makes sense to leave easy_install out, both
because it's apparently being deprecated, but also because we want to make
these missions as nuts and bolts as possible, and not try to teach multiple
things at once.

The text you've provided looks good!  The only note I have is, for the text
in the 'what you'll learn' section, break down that one single sentence
paragraph into a few shorter sentences.  Right now it's too much of a
run-on.  :)

~ Shauna


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Eeshan Garg <jerryguitarist at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Thanks a lot for replying and for the guidance! Here is what I think.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Carol Willing <
> willingc at willingconsulting.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> This section highlights pip vs. easy_install:
>> https://python-packaging-user-guide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/current.html#packaging-tool-recommendations
>>  My understanding is that easy_install use will be decreasing over time.
>> Do we want to deemphasize easy_install in the mission (or refer people to
>> the packaging guide for additional information).
>>
>
> If you think that easy_install should be left out, I would be willing to
> cut it out because now that I think about it, I have never used
> easy_install myself, so now I am doubtful about whether including it in the
> mission is a good idea or not.
>
>>
>> I have not looked at the mission in a while but we may also want to point
>> out that pip3 is used for Python 3.4 (current version 3 release).
>>
>
> Basically the mission has five steps:
>
> 1. About - The text of this page is what I asked feedback for in this
> email thread(see my first email).
> 2. Setup - How to install the tools we want to work with in this case pip
> or easy_install(if we choose to include it in the mission).
> 3. Installing packages - Here we ask the user to install a package using
> pip and ask them to paste the output of the pip freeze command to make sure
> that they followed the steps we asked them to.
> 4. Removing packages - How to remove a package(optionally, we could ask
> for the pip freeze/pip list output here again if we want)
> 5. Quick Reference - Other commonly used commands in pip
>
>  When it comes to pip3, I would be willing to include instruction about
> commands using both pip3 and pip, which I think would make the mission more
> awesome!
>
> Also, apart from these issues, I would really appreciate it if you can
> give me more feedback about whether the way I write and explain things in
> the About page of the mission is right or not.
>
> Thanks a lot for the awesome advice, I learned a lot from it. :)
>
> Regards,
> Eeshan Garg
>
>
>
>
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