On 4 September 2013 12:37, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com>wrote:
> What I meant was: If distutils gained the minimal missing setuptools > commands then would that be sufficient to decouple setuptools and pip. > I guess you've answered that above as "probably". > OK. But I regard vthat as a case of "if false then anything". I do think that we should explicitly abandon any solution that requires a change to distutils. That's never going to happen. (If one of the core commiters wants to prove me wrong, then go for it - but I think it's a waste of time for anyone else to bother speculating about it). Paul
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