[Distutils] PEP 439 and pip bootstrap updated

[Tres Seaver]

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On 07/09/2013 11:20 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:

> doesn't "PyEnv" which is bundled with Python 3.3+ replace virtualenv? 
> What's the purpose of including virtualenv in the bootstrap? 
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0405/

Environments generated by pyvenv lack setuptools, which makes them
un-useful compared to those generated by virtualenv.  Virtualenv is also
useful across the important set of Python versions (2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3),
which pyvenv (or any shipped-in-core varieant) can never be.



Tres.
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