On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Ram Rachum <cool-rr@cool-rr.com> wrote:
> I've asked before about bundling Distribute. But now I ask, is it possible to
> pull out the `pkg_resources` module from the Distribute folder and bundle only
> that with my project?

Technically, yes : it's a standalone module that depends only on the stdlib.

Great. So I can just yank out the `pkg_resources.py` file and it should work?

What would be the use case for this ? I don't think it's the best
practice to bundle
other projects modules like that in most cases.

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.

Ram.