[Distutils] Bootstrapping pip and setuptools

[Donald Stufft]

On Sep 18, 2013, at 3:54 AM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> Not sure whether this is interesting for anyone, but since I saw some
> threads about bootstrapping pip and setuptools, I though I might
> throw in a tool which does this.
> 
> For a while now, we've been making eGenix PyRun available, a Python
> run time that fits into a single file on Unix:
> 
>    http://www.egenix.com/products/python/PyRun/
> 
> It's a great virtualenv replacement and doesn't rely on the system
> provided Python installation.
> 
> Now, to make installation of PyRun even easier, we added an install
> script called install-pyrun:
> 
>    https://downloads.egenix.com/python/install-pyrun
> 
> This script downloads the correct PyRun for the platform and
> then goes on to bootstrap pip and setuptools fully automatically.
> It does this by fetching the most recent versions of these tools
> straight from PyPI, without relying on Python (or PyRun).
> 
> The script is a simple bash script and uses curl or wget for
> the fetch operation, so you get certificate checking, HTTPS,
> etc. for free.

Are you suggesting this as an alternative to PEP453 or just advertising
it exists?

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Donald Stufft
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