On Jul 13, 2013, at 2:29 AM, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: >> We could simply check it into the site-packages inside the CPython source >> tree could we not? *Not* providing a bootstrap script and merely checking it >> into the default site-packages means it's available for everyone. No matter >> how python installed. If Linux packagers really don't want it installed by >> default they could simply just remove it and either install it along with >> Python, or continue to keep it how it is today as a separate package? > > This sounds an unnecessary complication. I suspect that there is a > small minority of users who actually build Python from source. And they > should know what they are doing. I believe most users either use a > distribution-provided Python (via their OS) or a third-party package > provider (including python.org binary installers and their derivatives). > The OS distributors are going to do what they currently do; the only > change needed is to persuade them to include their pip package as a > mandatory dependency. Trying to hack the Python source build process to > include a copy of pip is just not worth the effort.
Okies, thought it might be simpler :) Doesn't matter to me where in the process it happens at :) I don't install from source. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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