> 1. Install to user-packages by default. > there was a thread a few weeks back on this. everyone seemed to agree at the end that just better error messages were enough. changing the default install location is a huge leap. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-May/020673.html
> 2. Not depend on setuptools (??? - Nick's "inversion" idea) > with the bootstrap installing setuptools, it's not necessary, but I plan on considering/helping/working on one or multiple of these for pip v1.5 anyway: 1) "bundling" setuptools (Donald's idea). it might not work, but interesting to try. lotta pros to doing this 2) replacing pkg_resources with distlib (vinay posted a PR for this) 3) if not #1, pip installing setuptools on-demand when building is needed (this was the old plan I think for PEP439 until the recent changes, and get's us closer to the "MEB"s model) Marcus
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