[Distutils] A new script which creates Python 3.3 venvs with Distribute and pip installed in them

[Alex Clark]

On 2013-01-31 09:05:17 +0000, Philippe Ombredanne said:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Python 3.3 includes a script, pyvenv, which is used to create virtual 
>> environments.
>> However, Distribute and pip are not installed in such environments - because,
>> though they are popular, they are third-party packages - not part of Python.
>> The Python 3.3 venv machinery allows customisation of virtual environments
>> fairly readily. To demonstrate how to do this, and to provide at the same time
>> a script which might be useful to people, I've created a script, 
>> pyvenvex.py, at
>> https://gist.github.com/4673395
>> which extends the pyvenv script to not only create virtual 
>> environments, but to also install Distribute and pip into them.
> 
> Excellent and one step closer to sane package management ....
> I wonder if you could not source instead the code that is directly in
> the virtualenv.py scripts? it also includes the packed distribute and
> pip ....
> Meaning that would allow the installation entirely offline (with the
> --never-download venv flag)
> 
> And btw, why pip is not part of the standard Python?  This is nowadays
> officially recommended on Pypi as the tool to use to install
> package....
> Per http://pypi.python.org/pypi
> "Get Packages: To use a package from this index either "pip install
> package" (get pip) or download, unpack and "python setup.py install"
> it."
> 
> This does not make sense to me: I know about some of the controversies
> .... but this is rather  inconsistent to recommend using a tool and
> not supporting it directly.


I think the short answer, as always, is: getting pip into the stdlib 
would require a tremendous amount of work that some would have to want 
to do[1] before it could happen. IIUC, the current direction is 
something like "get a packaging standard into the stdlib that people 
can build tools on top of" c.f. distutils/packaging.


[1] And that work is not always technical. A lot of the hard work is 
getting people to agree on things.


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