Marcus Smith <qwcode <at> gmail.com> writes:

> the idea to have pip vendor setuptools crumbles a bit due to console
scripts
needing pkg_resources.

They don't *need* pkg_resources. All they're doing is taking a module name
and the name of a nested object in the form 'a.b.c', and distlib-generated
scripts show that no external references are needed. Here's the template for
a distlib-generated script: