pip: Why sometimes installed as egg, sometimes installed as files

Question

Where can you force pip to install as \"flat\" and not as \"egg\".

For me it seems random. Sometimes it gets installed as egg, sometime as flat.

pip help i

Answer 1

This does not solve the question why I get sometimes zipped eggs, and sometimes not. But it helps.

You can use this in your ~/.distutils.cfg to avoid installation of zipped eggs:

[easy_install]
zip_ok = False