With all of the current interest in bundling pip with the Python distribution, I had a sudden thought. Vinay has developed a package called pyzzer (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyzzer) that bundles up Python modules into runnable single-file executables.
Using a command pyzzer -m pip:main -l t64 -o pipsa.exe -s "#!python" -r <path-to-pip>\pip you can build a single-file executable version of pip that can install wheels (it can't install sdists until setuptools is installed, because installing sdists depends on having setuptools at install time). The -s "#!python" is not needed on Unix as the default is "#!/usr/bin/env python". Also the -l t64 is a Windows requirement to get an exe - you can produce a cross-platform pyz archive without it (see the pyzzer docs for details). This requires the latest development version of pip (which contains a fix for running pip from an uninstalled zipfile) and the following patch to pip\__init__.py: Change: from pip import cmdoptions to: import pip.cmdoptions cmdoptions = pip.cmdoptions This fixes a recursive-import issue - I'll update pip "real soon now" (TM) for this. This is just an experiment at the moment - I've done minimal testing but it seems to work as I'd expect. It may be worth thinking about, though - either as an alternative to bundling (a bit late, I know) or as a way of providing pip for earlier versions of Python. Hope this is of interest. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig