From a9ecd7efb38fac3fbbcb6a55feeff10f45793027 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jason R. Coombs" <jaraco@jaraco.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 21:02:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Remove easy_install script and module.

---
 easy_install.py                     |  5 -----
 setup.cfg                           |  1 -
 setup.py                            | 17 -----------------
 setuptools/tests/test_namespaces.py |  5 +++--
 4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 easy_install.py

diff --git a/easy_install.py b/easy_install.py
deleted file mode 100644
index d87e984034..0000000000
--- a/easy_install.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-"""Run the EasyInstall command"""
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    from setuptools.command.easy_install import main
-    main()
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 36c7daeebc..006851daac 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ project_urls =
 
 [options]
 packages = find_namespace:
-py_modules = easy_install
 # disabled as it causes tests to be included #2505
 # include_package_data = true
 python_requires = >=3.6
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 28d3dada34..866383bdd3 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -30,22 +30,6 @@ def read_commands():
     return command_ns['__all__']
 
 
-def _gen_console_scripts():
-    yield "easy_install = setuptools.command.easy_install:main"
-
-    # Gentoo distributions manage the python-version-specific scripts
-    # themselves, so those platforms define an environment variable to
-    # suppress the creation of the version-specific scripts.
-    var_names = (
-        'SETUPTOOLS_DISABLE_VERSIONED_EASY_INSTALL_SCRIPT',
-        'DISTRIBUTE_DISABLE_VERSIONED_EASY_INSTALL_SCRIPT',
-    )
-    if any(os.environ.get(var) not in (None, "", "0") for var in var_names):
-        return
-    tmpl = "easy_install-{shortver} = setuptools.command.easy_install:main"
-    yield tmpl.format(shortver='{}.{}'.format(*sys.version_info))
-
-
 package_data = dict(
     setuptools=['script (dev).tmpl', 'script.tmpl', 'site-patch.py'],
 )
@@ -170,7 +154,6 @@ def _restore_install_lib(self):
             "depends.txt = setuptools.command.egg_info:warn_depends_obsolete",
             "dependency_links.txt = setuptools.command.egg_info:overwrite_arg",
         ],
-        "console_scripts": list(_gen_console_scripts()),
         "setuptools.installation":
             ['eggsecutable = setuptools.command.easy_install:bootstrap'],
     },
diff --git a/setuptools/tests/test_namespaces.py b/setuptools/tests/test_namespaces.py
index 6c8c522dc0..270f90c98b 100644
--- a/setuptools/tests/test_namespaces.py
+++ b/setuptools/tests/test_namespaces.py
@@ -62,8 +62,9 @@ def test_pkg_resources_import(self, tmpdir):
         target.mkdir()
         install_cmd = [
             sys.executable,
-            '-m', 'easy_install',
-            '-d', str(target),
+            '-m', 'pip',
+            'install',
+            '-t', str(target),
             str(pkg),
         ]
         with test.test.paths_on_pythonpath([str(target)]):