[Distutils] Virtalenv and setuptools [was: latest setuptools appears to require six in a breaking way]

[Donald Stufft]

> On Jan 25, 2017, at 2:11 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 25 January 2017 at 17:20, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>> Right, so what's the recommended one-step way to set up a virtualenv now in
>> Py 2.6-3.6?
> 
> This is the point I would consider most significant here. Virtualenv
> is deliberately built to allow use offline - pip, wheel and setuptools
> are bundled so that it's possible to create a virtualenv without
> needing Internet access. This change to setuptools will, if I
> understand it, break that expectation.
> 
> While it's not a common scenario, I think it's something that should
> be considered. Going forward, I see a number of options for
> virtualenv:
> 
> 1. Bundle all of setuptools' dependencies as well.
> 2. Drop the "no internet required" constraint - if we do this, it may
> be reasonable to only bundle pip, and get latest versions of
> everything else from PyPI.
> 3. Drop auto-installing setuptools (it's not needed unless you're
> installing from sdist, and it's only a "pip install setuptools" away
> for people who need it).
> 4. Document the changed behaviour by saying that no internet is
> required as long as you use --no-setuptools.
> 
> Thoughts, anyone? Is the situation common enough to warrant anything
> other than (4)? It used to be for me, when pip didn't cache downloads
> and I had a secured proxy to deal with, but now I'd be OK with (4).
> 

If we get PEP 518 landed in pip I think that (3) is the right step forward.

—
Donald Stufft



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