Enstaller

It is a replacement and backwards compatible with Easy Install, and includes the easy_install command and the setuptools package.

It lets users easily manage Python packages on their system. It also adds the package management tool enpkg for installing, removing, updating, deactivating, activating, and listing eggs on the system. 

What is new in this release:

• Handle corrupted egginst info JSON file more gracefully, rather than crashing.

What is new in version 4.8.2:

• Handle corrupted egginst info JSON file more gracefully, rather than crashing.

What is new in version 4.5.1:

• Added compression and caching of webservice index files.
• Fixed scripts being created on Windows when enpkg is run with pythonw.
• Simplified much of the revert code, by only allowing actual revision numbers (instead of also allowing date times).

What is new in version 4.5.0:

• Refactored to separate enpkg backend from frontend.
• Added ability to see which versions are installed when using the enpkg --search option.
• Added --hook and --user option to enpkg.
• Allow "{SUBDIR}" in URLs, in the configuration file.

What is new in version 4.4.0:

• Added examples/update.
• Added --sys-config option to enpkg.
• Rewrote install_order method in Chain class (which is now called install_sequence).

What is new in version 4.3.2:

• Added section about egg file naming to readme.
• Add --add-url option to enpkg.

What is new in version 4.1.3:

• PKG-INFO file is now placed in site-packages as <name>-<version>-py<major>.<minor>.egg-info.
• Removed unused enstaller.indexed_repo.platforms module.
• Allowing a placeholder '{ARCH}' in the list of indexed repositories in the configuration file which gets substituted by 'amd64' or 'x86', depending on the architecture of the current interpreter. This allows having a single configuration file on systems which have more than one interpreter installed.
• Added ability to handle release candidate versions.