On Jul 13, 2013, at 11:05 AM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote:
> Signed PGP part > On 07/13/2013 08:25 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > I think we need to flip the dependencies so that pip as the installer > > has all the essential code for installation from PyPI and then > > setuptools and distlib depend on that pip infrastructure. No need to > > add anything to the standard library prematurely when we can add it to > > pip instead. > > - -1. That would effectively mean inlining the bulk of setuptools' code > into pip (which is just a UI / policy shim over it). You might as well > just have your bootstrapper install both pip and setuptools and be done > > Unless distlib (or something like it) lands in the stdlib with enough > features to support a setuptools-less pip, of course. > > At-which-point-the-State-will-wither-away'ly, > > > Tres. > - -- > =================================================================== > Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com > Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig I was planning on doing this to pip anyways. pip should not have any dependencies setuptools or otherwise. So regardless of what happens with this PEP I want pip to be inlining setuptools and providing the code to make that transparent during install. This would mean that for people who are _just_ installing packages they don't need setuptools installed. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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