Re: [Distutils] Q about best practices now (or near future)

It would actually be nice if "pkg_resources" and "setuptools-core" were available as separate PyPI distributions, and setuptools bundled them together with easy_install. It's a *long* way down the priority list thing (and will likely never make it to the top, although it may be more practical once pip vendors the bits it needs).

the idea to have pip vendor setuptools crumbles a bit due to console scripts needing pkg_resources. you're left with 2 poor solutions: 1) rewriting script import lines, or 2) still installing setuptools anyway so, having a separate pkg_resources is higher up on the list I think for that reason. without a separate pkg_resources, I think the "dynamic install of setuptools" idea wins out, or no change at all.