[Distutils] Undelying design is fundamentally difficult to extend was: Remove distutils, was: red, green, refactor ...

[Chris Barker]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Güttler <
guettliml at thomas-guettler.de> wrote:

> If setuptools in inside Python, then different versions of Python each
> have their matching version included.
>
> If a package has the need for newer version of setuptool, it provides the
> hint somewhere: required_setuptools_version>=N.M
>
> Then the matching version from pypi gets downloaded first.
>

Isn't this what ensurepip already does???

Sure, it's called ensure *pip* but pip requires setuptools, so you get that
out of the box.

If in the future we have some nifty replacement for both setuptools and
distutils, pip can just grab that, too...

I think we're at the "someone needs to actually write the code" stage....

-CHB


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