[Distutils] PEP 453 Round 4 - Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Thu Sep 19 15:32:20 CEST 2013


We've just posted an updated PEP453 to python-dev.


Major changes:

* Removal of the option to fetch pip from PyPI in order not to modify the trust model of the Python installers
* Consequently rename the model from ``getpip`` to ``extractpip``


You can view it online at: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0453/

Please direct discussion to python-dev:
    https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-September/128780.html

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