Do people really want this? I hadn't seen it (other than if pip was installed to user by default). I think it's a bad idea to switch this on people. I doubt the user-packages is going to be in people's default PATH so they'll easily get into cases where things are installed but they don't know where it was installed too.
> 1. Install to user-packages by default.
> 2. Not depend on setuptools (??? - Nick's "inversion" idea)I wanted to do this anyways. It will still "depend" on it, but it will just bundle setuptools itself like its other dependencies. For pip dependencies are an implementation detail not an actual thing it can/should have.
> 3. Possibly change the wrapper command name from pip to pip3 on Unix.Not sure on this. Ideally i'd want the commands to be pipX.Y, pipX, and pip all available and not install the less specific ones if they already exist but that might be too hard?
I've always used pip to upgrade pip. The only time i've had problems is when setuptools messes up (which would be prevented if bundled).
> 4. Ensure that pip upgrading itself in-place is sufficiently robust and reliable that users don't get "stuck" on the Python-supplied version.