[Distutils] How to handle launcher script importability?

[Vinay Sajip]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:

> standard library is a mistake - the PyXML debacle shows us that. If
> the API is different (even if that means a strict subset), then it
> needs a different name.

I'm not really hung up about a specific name - what's in a name?
 
> It has nothing to do with code quality, and everything to do with
> being able to explain the migration plan to people. I *can* say to

Code quality is pertinent when it's the subtext behind "experimental".

> them "pip is going to cherry pick parts of distlib and potentially
> other libraries and make them available as 'piplib', which will be
> installed automatically when you install pip". At the moment, I no
> longer feel I can say "distlib will become the reference
> implementation". Note that there's also the bootstrapping issue with
> having pip depend on an external library: having the core library *in
> pip* makes that problem go away.

> When I made that suggestion, I misunderstood your plans for distlib.
> If pip are only adopting a subset of it, they can't use the same name,
> or people will get confused.

I can certainly see that there are ways to avoid confusion. But never mind,
I see that you've made your decision. I would have hoped for a more
transparent decision process, but that's probably due to my slowness of uptake.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip