[Distutils] PEP453 - Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations

[Marcus Smith]

ok, got it.  so, theoretically if the pip/setuptools relationship stays
what it is at the moment, get-pip would end up including a bundled
setuptools to fulfill the "Not all users will have network access to PyPI"


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

>
> On Aug 30, 2013, at 12:04 PM, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > There's no mention of setuptools.
> > I guess the handling of that dependency (or not handling it up front, if
> pip is refactored such that setuptools just becomes a dependency when
> building) is considered an implementation detail of get-pip?
>
>
> It's not mentioned by name but instead it's said:
>
> An additional module called ``getpip`` will be added to the standard
> library
> whose purpose is to install pip and any of its dependencies into the
> appropriate location (most commonly site-packages).
>
> Setuptools would be the "and any of its dependencies". I want to make
> setuptools not depend on setuptools but I added that as an escape clause
> incase that proves to be hard to actually do. The PEP itself specifies only
> pip because I'm considering setuptools an implementation detail of pip (one
> that can be replaced eventually or removed from it's "special" status).
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