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doc updates; consolidate easy_install comparison, remove note about not working on Windows

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@ -83,6 +83,18 @@ pip is meant to improve on easy_install. Some of the improvements:
* Simple to define fixed sets of requirements and reliably reproduce a
set of packages.
pip doesn't do everything that easy_install does. Specifically:
* It cannot install from eggs. It only installs from source. (In the
future it would be good if it could install binaries from Windows ``.exe``
or ``.msi`` -- binary install on other platforms is not a priority.)
* It doesn't understand Setuptools extras (like ``package[test]``). This should
be added eventually.
* It is incompatible with some packages that extensively customize distutils
or setuptools in their ``setup.py`` files.
pip is complementary with `virtualenv
<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv>`__, and it is encouraged that you use
virtualenv to isolate your installation.
@ -97,24 +109,6 @@ follow. Bugs can go on the `pip issue tracker
`virtualenv email group
<http://groups.google.com/group/python-virtualenv?hl=en>`_.
Differences From easy_install
-----------------------------
pip cannot install some packages. Specifically:
* It cannot install from eggs. It only installs from source. (In the future it would be good if it could install binaries from Windows ``.exe`` or ``.msi`` -- binary install on other platforms is not a priority.)
* It doesn't understand Setuptools extras (like ``package[test]``). This should
be added eventually.
* It is incompatible with some packages that customize distutils or setuptools
in their ``setup.py`` files.
* Maybe it doesn't work on Windows. At least, the author doesn't test on
Windows often.
* It also has some extra features. Extra features the author thinks are great.
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