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diff --git a/docs/pkg_resources.txt b/docs/pkg_resources.txt index 806f1b14..71568c1a 100644 --- a/docs/pkg_resources.txt +++ b/docs/pkg_resources.txt @@ -245,8 +245,8 @@ abbreviation for ``pkg_resources.working_set.require()``: interactive interpreter hacking than for production use. If you're creating an actual library or application, it's strongly recommended that you create a "setup.py" script using ``setuptools``, and declare all your requirements - there. That way, tools like EasyInstall can automatically detect what - requirements your package has, and deal with them accordingly. + there. That way, tools like pip can automatically detect what requirements + your package has, and deal with them accordingly. Note that calling ``require('SomePackage')`` will not install ``SomePackage`` if it isn't already present. If you need to do this, you @@ -611,9 +611,9 @@ Requirements Parsing or activation of both Report-O-Rama and any libraries it needs in order to provide PDF support. For example, you could use:: - easy_install.py Report-O-Rama[PDF] + pip install Report-O-Rama[PDF] - To install the necessary packages using the EasyInstall program, or call + To install the necessary packages using pip, or call ``pkg_resources.require('Report-O-Rama[PDF]')`` to add the necessary distributions to sys.path at runtime. @@ -1621,7 +1621,7 @@ Platform Utilities ``get_build_platform()`` Return this platform's identifier string. For Windows, the return value - is ``"win32"``, and for Mac OS X it is a string of the form + is ``"win32"``, and for macOS it is a string of the form ``"macosx-10.4-ppc"``. All other platforms return the same uname-based string that the ``distutils.util.get_platform()`` function returns. This string is the minimum platform version required by distributions built @@ -1641,7 +1641,7 @@ Platform Utilities considered a wildcard, and the platforms are therefore compatible. Likewise, if the platform strings are equal, they're also considered compatible, and ``True`` is returned. Currently, the only non-equal - platform strings that are considered compatible are Mac OS X platform + platform strings that are considered compatible are macOS platform strings with the same hardware type (e.g. ``ppc``) and major version (e.g. ``10``) with the `provided` platform's minor version being less than or equal to the `required` platform's minor version. @@ -1674,7 +1674,7 @@ File/Path Utilities the same filesystem location if they have equal ``normalized_path()`` values. Specifically, this is a shortcut for calling ``os.path.realpath`` and ``os.path.normcase`` on `path`. Unfortunately, on certain platforms - (notably Cygwin and Mac OS X) the ``normcase`` function does not accurately + (notably Cygwin and macOS) the ``normcase`` function does not accurately reflect the platform's case-sensitivity, so there is always the possibility of two apparently-different paths being equal on such platforms. @@ -1843,9 +1843,9 @@ History because it isn't necessarily a filesystem path (and hasn't been for some time now). The ``location`` of ``Distribution`` objects in the filesystem should always be normalized using ``pkg_resources.normalize_path()``; all - of the setuptools and EasyInstall code that generates distributions from - the filesystem (including ``Distribution.from_filename()``) ensure this - invariant, but if you use a more generic API like ``Distribution()`` or + of the setuptools' code that generates distributions from the filesystem + (including ``Distribution.from_filename()``) ensure this invariant, but if + you use a more generic API like ``Distribution()`` or ``Distribution.from_location()`` you should take care that you don't create a distribution with an un-normalized filesystem path. |