On 16 July 2013 12:04, Oscar Benjamin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 16 July 2013 11:28, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > > Two thoughts for the wider audience: > > > > 1. Should pip re-vendor a newer version of distlib, so we have the exe > > wrappers? We currently have 0.1.1 and 0.1.2 is on PyPI. > > In what way would that affect anyone? > Sorry, you're right - that's really for the pip developers. > > > 2. Would writing a distutils extension class in setup.py to make the exe > > wrappers using the vendored distlib.scripts package be acceptable to > remove > > the runtime dependency on pkg_resources from the wrappers? > > Does that mean that an end user would need a C compiler in a situation > where they previously didn't? > I don't believe so - distlib bundles the compiled code. On the other hand, I'm missing something, as I don't see how the *current* exe wrappers avoid meaning that there need to be separate 32-bit and 64-bit versions of pip... Paul
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