[Python-Dev] Bootstrap script for package management tool in Python 2.7 (Was: Re: [Distutils] At least one package management tool for 2.7) (original) (raw)

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Mon Mar 29 09:55:08 CEST 2010

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:30 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> 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:

 "search" -> "download" -> "unzip" -> "cmd" -> "cd" -> "python setup.py install"

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 - easyinstall - a part of setuptools package.

There are other tools to install something in a vanilla Python :

The required behavior for very basic user friendliness: 1. user installs Python 2.7 2. user issues python -m easyinstall something 3. user gets message 'easyinstall' tool is not installed on this system. To make it available, download and install setuptools package from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/

Are you thinking about something generic ?

Like, being able to call :

$ python -m ANYTHING

And get an error message saying that the ANYTHING script is not installed ? Then have a registry somewhere to get the name of the project that owns the ANYTHING script ?

[..]

So, do we need a PEP for that? How else can I know if consensus is reached? Anybody is willing to elaborate on implementation?

I see two paths here: 1 - do you want to define a general mechanism for Python to install scripts ? 2 - are you just suggesting to have this mechanism only for Package Managers ?

In case of 2), what you would need to do is propose an extension to PEP 376, we are currently working on, then we can add it there once people have discussed it on distutils-SIG, or maybe create a new PEP if the topic is too big to fit in 376.

P.S. Please be careful to reply to relevant lists

Yes, so if it's 2) let's keep this thread in Distutils-SIG. Cross-posting like this makes it hard to follow.

Tarek

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