Pip doesn't work in pypy

[vbabiy]

Pip currently requires that sys.prefix exist, which doesn't appear to be the case in Pypy (for some reason, it uses sys.pypy_prefix). This is fixed in this changeset: http://bitbucket.org/jasbaker/pip/changeset/7bc1620ecfd8

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/ianb/pip/issue/136
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• Originally Created At: 2010-06-26 15:57:52

[vbabiy]

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Original Comment By: jasbaker

[vbabiy]

Interesting. There are several other places where pip checks sys.prefix (in
util.py and req.py). If we really need to support sys.pypi_prefix as an
alternative, those places should also pull the value from locations.py, I
think. But this doesn't quite seem right; do we (and any other project that
uses sys.prefix for anything) have to support an alternative prefix attribute
for every non-CPython interpreter? Why can't PyPy set sys.prefix?

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Original Comment By: Carl Meyer

[vbabiy]

According to Alex Gaynor, a PyPy core dev, PyPy trunk now has sys.prefix, it
just didn't get in in time for the release. So all future releases of PyPy
should not have this problem. Accordingly, marking this wontfix.

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Original Comment By: Carl Meyer