July 16, 2013
11:42 a.m.
On 16 July 2013 12:25, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
2. Would writing a distutils extension class in setup.py to make the exe wrappers using the vendored distlib.scripts package be acceptable to remove the runtime dependency on pkg_resources from the wrappers?
Does that mean that an end user would need a C compiler in a situation where they previously didn't?
I don't believe so - distlib bundles the compiled code.
On the other hand, I'm missing something, as I don't see how the *current* exe wrappers avoid meaning that there need to be separate 32-bit and 64-bit versions of pip...
I thought that 64 bit Windows could run 32 bit Windows .exe files (although I don't have a way to check this). Oscar