anatoly techtonik wrote:
So, there won't be any package management tool shipped with Python 2.7 and users will have to download and install `setuptools` manually as before:
"search" -> "download" -> "unzip" -> "cmd" -> "cd" -> "python setup.py install"
Therefore I still propose shipping bootstrap package that instruct user how to download and install an actual package management tool when users tries to use it.
For what it's worth, Guido prototyped something similar in March of 2008, but his was an actual bootstrapping tool for package management: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-March/077837.html His tool knew how to download a tar file, untar it, and run "python setup.py install" on it. No version numbers, no dependency management, simple enough that it should be easy to get right. Only appropriate for bootstrapping into a real package management tool. The thread ends with him saying "I don't have time to deal with this further this week", and I dunno, maybe it just fell off the radar? I'd been thinking about resurrecting the discussion but I didn't have time either. I fear it is too late for 2.7, //larry//