[Distutils] pypi and easy_install

[Giampaolo Rodola']

> The other argument for using spawn() first would be that it's the
> least invasive and most backward-compatible change.

Yeah, I agree. It would be probably better using spawn() as default.

2008/1/19, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> At 08:10 PM 1/19/2008 +0100, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
> >Just another thing.
> >I was wondering what do you think would be better to do as default.
> >Using Python modules as default and spawn() as fall back or doing
> >the contrary?
> >Maybe using spawn() as default would be better since original
> >utilities should be faster than python modules.
>
> I suppose that's a possibility, although the tarfile module doing the
> compression might be faster than separate tar and compress steps.
>
> The other argument for using spawn() first would be that it's the
> least invasive and most backward-compatible change.
>
>