[Python-Dev] PEP 453 Round 4 (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] PEP 453 Round 4 - Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Thu Sep 19 15:43:09 CEST 2013

On 19 September 2013 14:27, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

Major changes:

* Removal of the option to fetch pip from PyPI in order not to modify the trust model of the Python installers * Consequently rename the model from getpip to extractpip

If extractpip (I agree, I don't like the name, installpip is better) only ever unpacks the bundled pip, and it's always run, why bother? Why not just bundle pip directly into site-packages? The extra step seems to add little or no value.

Paul

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