I’ve finished renaming pyinstall to its new name: pip. The name pip is a acronym and declaration: pip installs packages.

I’ve also added a small feature intended for Google App Engine users, allowing you to zip and unzip packages in an environment. For instance:

$ pip zip --list In ./lib/python2.5/site-packages: No zipped packages. Unzipped packages: paste (98 files) pygments (64 files) tempita (7 files) weberror (31 files) webob (22 files) webtest (9 files) nose (43 files) setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg (43 files) simplejson (28 files) $ pip zip webob Zip webob (in ./lib/python2.5/site-packages/webob)

Right now this doesn’t work well with egg directories (i.e., packages installed with easy_install ), though that shouldn’t be too hard to resolve. pip install itself does not install packages into egg directories (it does install eggs, which is to say it installs all the egg metadata and works fine with pkg_resources).