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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Jan 21 22:46:22 CET 2008

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.

Regards, Martin

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