Well, a - that's a bug - it should be req and it should be in a for-loop. Fix coming.

As for pip - easy_install doesn't do mirror servers well, nor does it understand all of the requirement specs that pip does, which has frequently caused problems for us on our build farm - so I'm on a mission to get easy_install destroyed, really. Also, given the newness of installations that d2to1 targets (it's using fairly new python syntax) it's really unlikely that pip isn't available.