[Distutils] Bootstrapping pip and setuptools

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 18.09.2013 14:09, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 18 September 2013 12:49, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>> Upside: It works with Python 2.x and 3.x.
>> Downside: Unix only.
> 
>>From your description, it's not clear - is it just the installer
> that's Unix-only, or the runtime as well? I just looked at the link,
> apparently the runtime is as well, but I'm not sure why (it wouldn't
> need curl, for example).

The script is a bash script and the bootstrapping is part of it.

The script downloads setuptools and pip from PyPI using curl
(or wget).

> IMO, anything that doesn't support Windows is at best peripheral to
> this discussion (although PyRun itself sounds awesome, and I'd love to
> see a Windows version!)

Yeah, some rainy day maybe :-)

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