[Python-Dev] PEP 477: selected ensurepip backports for Python 2.7 (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Sep 1 01:17:29 CEST 2014

On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 08:00:14 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

That part of the proposal proved to be controversial, so we dropped it from the original PEP in order to focus on meeting the Python 3.4 specific release deadlines. This also had the benefit of working out the kinks in the bootstrapping processing as part of the Python 3.4 release cycle. However, we still think we should start providing pip by default to Python 2.7 users as well, at least as part of the Windows and Mac OS X installers.

I don't agree with this. pip is simply not part of the 2.7 feature set. If you add pip to a bugfix version, then you have bugfix versions which are more featureful than others, which makes things more complicated to explain.

Regards

Antoine.

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