pypa/pip — pull request #1204 by hynek (2013-09-19 15:13:43+00:00)
Title: Mention wheel as an egg replacement

While it’s true that pip can’t install eggs, it’s not true anymore that it installs only source distributions.

I got an angry email because of my blog post where I say that easy_install is supplanted by pip and the writer is insistive that pip can’t handle binary packages citing this document.