Mention pipx as alternative installer

[ssbarnea]

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[webknjaz]

I don't have any strong opinion on this. I'm a bit opposed to recommending third-party tools as you may end up having to deal with people not knowing how to best set up pipx in their systems.

[ssbarnea]

I don't have any strong opinion on this. I'm a bit opposed to recommending third-party tools as you may end up having to deal with people not knowing how to best set up pipx in their systems.

My guess is that using pip correctly is much harder than using pipx. Once they install pipx, I doubt they can get it to misbehave, like we often see with pip (--user, sudo, ....).

Just to have an idea, just yesterday I had one user complaining that installing using pip was failing under centos-7... yeah pip 9.0.3 from py27, something already not supported.

[tadeboro]

If the external tool does not provide an order of magnitude better user experience, then I am against recommending it. When it comes to Python apps, I tend to instruct users to either install them using the distro's package manager or create a dedicated virtual environment (example: https://github.com/sensu/sensu-go-python#installation). Anything else is just asking for troubles in my experience.

In this case, I would say pipx is not worth it and that we should stick to standard tools.

[ssbarnea]

If the external tool does not provide an order of magnitude better user experience, then I am against recommending it. When it comes to Python apps, I tend to instruct users to either install them using the distro's package manager or create a dedicated virtual environment (example: https://github.com/sensu/sensu-go-python#installation). Anything else is just asking for troubles in my experience.

In this case, I would say pipx is not worth it and that we should stick to standard tools.

I will wait for additional feedback, so I can see if there is a trend or not. Based on current one I am inclined to rewrite the recommendation differently, listing pip3 in example and only mentioning pipx as an alternative.

[webknjaz]

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/former-vs-latter/

Suggested change

	You can use either pip3_ or pipx_ to install it, the former one
	You can use either pip3_ or pipx_ to install it, the latter one

[webknjaz]

@ssbarnea ^