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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Jan 22 00:25:09 CET 2008

On Jan 21, 2008 1:46 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> What I meant was that we could include an easyinstall.py whose sole > function is to ensure that setuptools is installed and then invoke > the "real" easyinstall. Thus, the first time you ran easyinstall, > 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

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