On 16 July 2013 12:04, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16 July 2013 11:28, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
Two thoughts for the wider audience:
1. Should pip re-vendor a newer version of distlib, so we have the exe wrappers? We currently have 0.1.1 and 0.1.2 is on PyPI.
In what way would that affect anyone?
Sorry, you're right - that's really for the pip developers.
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... Paul