[Distutils] PEP 453 Round 2 - Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations

[Donald Stufft]

On Sep 16, 2013, at 10:15 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> However, I just noticed that the PEP *doesn't* currently specify the
> effect of running "python -m getpip" when pip is already installed. I
> believe it should attempt to upgrade pip, so that in the normal course
> of events (i.e. just installing CPython maintenance releases without
> manually upgrading pip), then pip will be automatically upgraded to
> the latest version each time CPython itself is updated.

TBH I just assumed it would say that pip is already bootstrapped, but I'm
OK with making it upgrade as well. My thinking was if you already had
pip then ``pip install --upgrade pip`` is easier but making the bootstrap
upgrade too does mean that installing a maintenance release will upgrade
your pip too which is kinda nice.

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