On 24 October 2014 07:07, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Matthias Klose wrote: >> >> Most packages need a dependency on pkg_resources only. So adding a >> pkg-resources >> egg would be nice. > > I thought that making pkg_resources a separate thing was one > of the goals of the new distutils regime. Has it not happened > yet?
My understanding is that setuptools currently faces its own bootstrapping problems if pkg_resources is separated out. The accepted PEP 477 will backport ensurepip to Python 2.7.9+, at which point "python -m ensurepip && python -m pip install --upgrade setuptools" should reliably cover the bootstrapping problem even with pkg_resources separated out. That said, there also isn't a current setuptools issue to split them, so I don't know where this currently sits on Jason's priority list (setuptools itself really isn't that big a deal as a runtime dependency - the thing you don't want on your production servers is the compilers that setuptools needs in order to do anything useful with extension module source files). Regards, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig