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