Commit 42d83485 authored by Jason R. Coombs's avatar Jason R. Coombs

Update docs to reflect resurrection of Setuptools over Distribute

parent 42e8279a
......@@ -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.
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