On Sun, Aug 31, 2014, at 16:17, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 08:00:14 +1000 > Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > That part of the proposal proved to be controversial, so we dropped it from > > the original PEP in order to focus on meeting the Python 3.4 specific > > release deadlines. This also had the benefit of working out the kinks in > > the bootstrapping processing as part of the Python 3.4 release cycle. > > > > However, we still think we should start providing pip by default to Python > > 2.7 users as well, at least as part of the Windows and Mac OS X installers. > > I don't agree with this. pip is simply not part of the 2.7 feature set. > If you add pip to a bugfix version, then you have bugfix versions which > are more featureful than others, which makes things more complicated to > explain.
2.7.x has been and will be alive for so long that will already have to explain that sort thing; i.e. PEP 466 and why different bugfix releases support different versions of dependency libraries. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com