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diff --git a/docs/pkg_resources.txt b/docs/pkg_resources.txt
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@@ -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.
@@ -1132,8 +1132,8 @@ relative to the root of the identified distribution; i.e. its first path
segment will be treated as a peer of the top-level modules or packages in the
distribution.
-Note that resource names must be ``/``-separated paths and cannot be absolute
-(i.e. no leading ``/``) or contain relative names like ``".."``. Do *not* use
+Note that resource names must be ``/``-separated paths rooted at the package,
+cannot contain relative names like ``".."``, and cannot be absolute. Do *not* use
``os.path`` routines to manipulate resource paths, as they are *not* filesystem
paths.
@@ -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.