<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Tarek Ziadé <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ziade.tarek@gmail.com">ziade.tarek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Ram Rachum <<a href="mailto:cool-rr@cool-rr.com">cool-rr@cool-rr.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I've asked before about bundling Distribute. But now I ask, is it possible to<br>
> pull out the `pkg_resources` module from the Distribute folder and bundle only<br>
> that with my project?<br>
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Technically, yes : it's a standalone module that depends only on the stdlib.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Great. So I can just yank out the `pkg_resources.py` file and it should work? </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
What would be the use case for this ? I don't think it's the best<br>
practice to bundle<br>
other projects modules like that in most cases.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Up to now I've been requiring my users to install Distribute, but one of them expressed reluctance to install it, partly because of the shadowing of setuptools.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Ram.</div></div>
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