On Sunday, 15 September 2013, Donald Stufft wrote:
So there've been a number of updates to PEP453, so i'm posting it here again for more discussion:
Viewable online at: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0453/
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Hey, I've been trying hard to follow the discussions but please forgive this question if its has been hashed out already. I was a little concerned, despite it being an implementation detail, about bundling a pip which ends up being present somewhere whwerever the bootstrap is. I know the concept of a mini-pip has been abandoned, but I couldn't help thinking about the pip / setuptools as wheels in Nick's roadmap summary. Instead of a copy of pip, could there not be minimal code to simply fetch the wheel and install that or perhaps even use it directly (a la what was possible with eggs)? Perhaps that is already too much code and there are good reasons not to do this, but hoped asking would make it clear. Thanks, Alex J Burke.