On Sun, Aug 31, 2014, at 16:17, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 08:00:14 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
That part of the proposal proved to be controversial, so we dropped it from the original PEP in order to focus on meeting the Python 3.4 specific release deadlines. This also had the benefit of working out the kinks in the bootstrapping processing as part of the Python 3.4 release cycle.
However, we still think we should start providing pip by default to Python 2.7 users as well, at least as part of the Windows and Mac OS X installers.
I don't agree with this. pip is simply not part of the 2.7 feature set. If you add pip to a bugfix version, then you have bugfix versions which are more featureful than others, which makes things more complicated to explain.
2.7.x has been and will be alive for so long that will already have to explain that sort thing; i.e. PEP 466 and why different bugfix releases support different versions of dependency libraries.