On Jan 21, 2008 1:46 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I meant was that we could include an easy_install.py whose sole > > function is to ensure that setuptools is installed and then invoke > > the "real" easy_install. Thus, the first time you ran easy_install, > > a current version would be downloaded, and thereafter the real one > > would be runnable. > > Despite my (well-known) objections to setuptools as the foundation for > the .egg format (and everything that comes with it), I think that would > be a desirable and easy thing to do. Including a setuptools bootstrapper > into the distribution still leaves the choice of actually using > setuptools to the end user.
What Martin said, almost verbatim. =) -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
