> > The *only* case this approach doesn't immediately cover is a project that: > 1. Doesn't publish a pre-built wheel for the current platform (or egg, > assuming pip gains support for those, perhaps by implicitly converting > them to wheels) > 2. Doesn't publish 2.0 metadata with "Setup-Requires-Dist: setuptools" > 3. imports setuptools in its setup.py file > > so that's most everything on pypi right now in the short and medium term.
> This can be handled in pip, by using the AST module to scan for > setuptools imports in setup.py (or else by checking for a setuptools > related ImportError after trying to run it). so you're asking pip to get this working soon, right? like before python3.4, so this PEP can go in? Marcus > Yes, it's a hack, but I > am *not* going to approve a PEP that further entrenches something even > its creator would like to see waved off into the sunset, giving thanks > for its good service :) > > Regards, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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