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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