[Python-Dev] PEP 365 (was Re: PEP: per user site-packages directory) (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Jan 21 17:25:14 CET 2008

At 10:48 AM 1/21/2008 -0500, Steve Holden wrote:

Phillip J. Eby wrote: > (Heck, if what you really want is to have easyinstall support in > 2.6, we could just as easily bundle an easyinstall.py that asks for > an install of setuptools if it's not already present.) > Would the easiest way to do this be to insert a default dependency on setuptools?

Sorry, I don't understand the question. What do you mean by "default dependency" and to what are you proposing it be inserted? :)

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.

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