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

[Thomas Güttler]

Am 22.10.2015 um 18:31 schrieb Chris Barker:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Güttler <guettliml at thomas-guettler.de <mailto: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.

ok, nice.

I was thinking about a new key-value pair in setup.py or setup.cfg.

ensurepip is a package.

Is there already a way to pull the matching pip or setuptools version via a setup.py/setup.cfg?


Regards,
   Thomas Güttler

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