[Python-Dev] PEP 453 (pip bootstrapping) ready for pronouncement? (original) (raw)

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Thu Sep 26 18:40:39 CEST 2013

On Sep 26, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Le Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:22:55 -0400, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> a écrit :

Ideally people won't be typing either of them because it'll be installed automatically. They might in some cases (accidentally uninstalled pip?) Installing from source perhaps.

Ah yea, installing from source is the time when they'd execute it, that slipped my mind.

I agree that it seems there is paranoia going on here and that the risk is low and making it just be a special cased new feature is ok. However the point of the underscore prefix on 2.7 and 3.3 is to more effectively communicate that on these pythons you shouldn't rely on that module existing. That's a fair argument, although it also makes the thing a bit ugly.

Yea It's not my preferred thing to do and I think that calling it just ensurepip is fine, however I think if folks are worried about it, it could offer a compromise.

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