On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 09:30, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> Therefore I still propose shipping bootstrap package that instruct
> user how to download and install an actual package management tool
> when users tries to use it. So far I know only one stable tool -
> `easy_install` - a part of `setupt
2010/3/29 Lennart Regebro :
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 09:30, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>> Therefore I still propose shipping bootstrap package that instruct
>> user how to download and install an actual package management tool
>> when users tries to use it. So far I know only one stable tool -
>>
2010/3/29 anatoly techtonik :
> 2010/3/29 Lennart Regebro :
>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 09:30, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>>> Therefore I still propose shipping bootstrap package that instruct
>>> user how to download and install an actual package management tool
>>> when users tries to use it. So f
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:02, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> distutils is not a `package management` tool, because it doesn't know
> anything even about installed packages
With that definition, there are no packaga management tools for
Python. So it's going to be pretty hard to ship one with 2.7.
>
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:45 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>> [..]
>>> distutils is not a `package management` tool, because it doesn't know
>>> anything even about installed packages, not saying anything about
>>> dependencies.
>>
>> At this
2010/3/29 anatoly techtonik :
> Ok. How about shipping bootstrap script only for `easy_install` tool for now?
Since there are many who are of the opinion that easy_install isn't
very good, and pip should be used instead, that would be a bad idea.
Just drop it. 2.7 will not have a package managem
anatoly techtonik wrote:
> So, there won't be any package management tool shipped with Python 2.7
> and users will have to download and install `setuptools` manually as
> before:
[...]
> So, do we need a PEP for that? How else can I know if consensus is
> reached? Anybody is willing to elaborate on
