Marcus Smith <qwcode <at> gmail.com> writes: > the idea to have pip vendor setuptools crumbles a bit due to console scripts needing pkg_resources.
They don't *need* pkg_resources. All they're doing is taking a module name and the name of a nested object in the form 'a.b.c', and distlib-generated scripts show that no external references are needed. Here's the template for a distlib-generated script: SCRIPT_TEMPLATE = '''%(shebang)s if __name__ == '__main__': import sys, re def _resolve(module, func): __import__(module) mod = sys.modules[module] parts = func.split('.') result = getattr(mod, parts.pop(0)) for p in parts: result = getattr(result, p) return result try: sys.argv[0] = re.sub('-script.pyw?$', '', sys.argv[0]) func = _resolve('%(module)s', '%(func)s') rc = func() # None interpreted as 0 except Exception as e: # only supporting Python >= 2.6 sys.stderr.write('%%s\\n' %% e) rc = 1 sys.exit(rc) ''' I don't see any reason why setuptools couldn't be updated to use this approach. Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig