It is easy to forget that pip only needs the "package database" part of setuptools (pkg_resources.py) to install things. With the small catch that the rest of setuptools is required to install anything besides wheels.
MEBS is just about implementing build requirements properly and giving pip a consistent interface to build traditional sdists *or* any new (sdist 2.0, distil, bento) kinds of packages that may come along. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
