On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Marcus Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Vinay Sajip <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> 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: > > > pkg_resources scripts confirm the version. don't see that here? not > necessary?
It's useful when you have more than one version of things installed as eggs. pkg_resources does the full dependency resolution and adds everything to the sys.path. When you are not doing that then it's not needed. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
