[Distutils] Bundling pkg_resources

[cool-RR]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Ram Rachum <cool-rr at cool-rr.com> wrote:
> > I've asked before about bundling Distribute. But now I ask, is it
> possible to
> > pull out the `pkg_resources` module from the Distribute folder and bundle
> only
> > that with my project?
>
> Technically, yes : it's a standalone module that depends only on the
> stdlib.
>

Great. So I can just yank out the `pkg_resources.py` file and it should
work?


> What would be the use case for this ?  I don't think it's the best
> practice to bundle
> other projects modules like that in most cases.
>
>
Up to now I've been requiring my users to install Distribute, but one of
them expressed reluctance to install it, partly because of the shadowing of
setuptools.

Ram.
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