Issue 20417: ensurepip should not be installed with --without-ensurepip (original) (raw)

This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/64616

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Created on 2014-01-28 11:54 by Arfrever, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (5)
msg209536 - (view)	Author: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (Arfrever) *	Date: 2014-01-28 11:54
ensurepip should not be installed when --without-ensurepip was passed to configure. I attach the patch.
msg209537 - (view)	Author: Donald Stufft (dstufft) *	Date: 2014-01-28 12:25
I don't see any reason not to install ensurepip in this situation. That flag controls whether or not ``python -m ensurepip`` will be executed during the install, but ensurepip itself will still be installed. It is not an optional module
msg209695 - (view)	Author: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (Arfrever) *	Date: 2014-01-30 00:02
Some distributions have policies about not bundling external code. ensurepip currently bundles some versions of setuptools and pip.
msg209696 - (view)	Author: Donald Stufft (dstufft) *	Date: 2014-01-30 00:10
Yes I am aware of that. However ensurepip is also required to maintain functionality of the "venv" module in 3.4. See the guidelines in http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0453/#recommendations-for-downstream-distributors which explicitly mentions the fact that this is functionality equivalent to the same bundling that occurs in virtualenv and I've yet to see a distribution not include that and not make an exception to the bundling policy.
msg226566 - (view)	Author: Alyssa Coghlan (ncoghlan) *	Date: 2014-09-08 09:50
As Donald notes, this was explicitly covered in the PEP: the onus is on the distros to make ensurepip and pyvenv work in a way that complies with their debundling requirements (e.g. by using rewheel, or redirecting to the system installer). The "--without-ensurepip" flag is there to disable running it at install time. Fully removing the ensurepip module is not a supported configuration - if a distro wants to do that, they're going to have to carry a patch.