<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Peter Cock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com" target="_blank">p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Actually installing pip on older Pythons is a pain, so I'd like any<br>
wording to make it clear pip may not be installed, in which case<br>
the traditional "python setup.py ..." route is the best bet.<br>
<div class=""><div class="h5"></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure. The Python community has been fairly clear for years that pip is the way forward. As long as we're being good citizens, recommending Python 3.5 and so on, we should suggest a sane setup as the default one for Biopython's users.<br><br>I haven't used Windows in about a decade, but on Linux in recent years pip has always been available to me. I can vouch for conda, too; whatever the usual problems are on Windows, I think conda is meant to fix/avoid them.<br><br></div><div>-Eric<br></div></div></div></div>