On 09/04/2013 07:27 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > I was under the impression pip *already* forced the use of setuptools > (to ensure "--record" is available)
Sidenote, and already mentioned by MAL upthread, but --record is a distutils feature, not a setuptools feature, so this is not the reason pip forces setuptools. I think the actual reason is so that pip can have a uniform way to access metadata (including dependency metadata that only setuptools has) by running "setup.py egg-info", which is setuptools-only. (It also means pip can install everything with the same installed format, including the .egg-info metadata directory). Carl _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
