[Ironpython-users] Supporting ensurepip early in the development timeline?

[Olof Bjarnason]

PIP built-in sounds like a dream :)

Is there anything I can help out on testing this?

On 6 May 2014 09:37, Vernon D. Cole <vernondcole at gmail.com> wrote:
> The following post appeared in Jython-dev this morning.
>
> I think that this might be a really good idea for IronPython, too,
> especially now that there is a patch for setuptools so that it will not
> choke on Iron.
>
> Should this be included as a work item in our tracker?
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> Vernon Cole
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> Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 12:24:41 -0600
> From: Jim Baker <jim.baker at python.org>
> Subject: [Jython-dev] Supporting ensurepip in beta 4
> To: Jython Developers <jython-dev at lists.sourceforge.net>
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> I just had a nice conversation on #pypa-dev re ensurepip, which is part of
> Python 3.4 and will also be bundled in PyPy 2.3, which supports both 2.7
> and 3.4 versions of Python. I recommend that Jython 2.7 do the same, given
> that like PyPy we are under active development, unlike CPython 2.7.
>
> We should be able to do this in time for beta 4.
>
> ensurepip (https://docs.python.org/3/library/ensurepip.html) provides
> support for having a bundled version of pip, which is then used to install
> the current version of pip in a matter that's transparent to the user.
> Jython simply needs to bundle the required pip and setuptools wheels and
> the ensurepip package in stdlib.
>
> This will mean that our users will have pip immediately available to them
> upon installing Jython, with no extra steps required. PyPy has done the
> hard work to provide a 2.7-compatible version. More rationale here:
> http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0453/
>
> This timeline depends on a pull request I made against pip's vendor lib
> dependency html5lib-python getting made, but I don't expect us to see any
> blockers there.
>
> - Jim
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