At 08:48 AM 3/17/2008 -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote: >On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, if the consensus is that it would be better to have a module that > > only does bootstrap installs of pure-Python eggs from PyPI, I'm > > totally fine with that. > >Let's just do this; it will avoid a protracted discussion of the >merits of eggs, pkg_resources, and setuptools.
Well, it might be replaced by a protracted discussion of how the module should work and what its API should be, but perhaps that would be a better one to have. :) So, the original proposal (from the previous thread about this) was that the module be named easy_install, and that it simply downloads setuptools and delegates to the "real" easy_install. That way, people can simply use "python -m easy_install ...", without worrying about whether setuptools has been installed yet. IIRC, other package management tools such as zc.buildout and workingenv can then be installed using easy_install. Any objections? Should I revise the PEP? _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
