[Distutils] PEP439 and backward compat / easy_install / distlib

[Marcus Smith]

>
> The *only* case this approach doesn't immediately cover is a project that:
> 1. Doesn't publish a pre-built wheel for the current platform (or egg,
> assuming pip gains support for those, perhaps by implicitly converting
> them to wheels)
> 2. Doesn't publish 2.0 metadata with "Setup-Requires-Dist: setuptools"
> 3. imports setuptools in its setup.py file
>
>
so that's most everything on pypi right now in the short and medium term.


> This can be handled in pip, by using the AST module to scan for
> setuptools imports in setup.py (or else by checking for a setuptools
> related ImportError after trying to run it).


so you're asking pip to get this working soon, right?  like before
python3.4, so this PEP can go in?

Marcus



> Yes, it's a hack, but I
> am *not* going to approve a PEP that further entrenches something even
> its creator would like to see waved off into the sunset, giving thanks
> for its good service :)
>
> Regards,
> Nick.
>
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