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

[Jeff Hardy]

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Olof Bjarnason <olof.bjarnason at gmail.com> wrote:
> PIP built-in sounds like a dream :)
>
> Is there anything I can help out on testing this?

First, open an issue: https://ironpython.codeplex.com/WorkItem/Create,
and send me your CodePlex username so I can add you to the project
(after 2.7.5 everything will move to GitHub, but I'm using CP for one
last release, for old times' sake) and you can edit/close issues.

I've wanted to have pip working for quite a while now but just never
found the time.[1] Honestly though, it should be pretty easy.
ensurepip I've never looked at, so I don't know, but I can't imagine
it being too difficult. Upstream on these projects is open to patches
for IronPython support as well, so there shouldn't be any issues
there. With ensurepip we could even distribute our own fork if we had
to.

>From what I recall the major issue with pip was making sure that it
had with: blocks where needed, since parts of it implicitly relied on
CPython's refcounting GC to close files deterministically. That may
have been cleaned up over the years.

Because of various things over the next month 2.7.5 probably won't
land until June, so there should be lots of time to get pip/ensurepip
ready.

- Jeff

[1] http://wondermark.com/729/

>
> 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?
>> --
>> Vernon Cole
>> v v v v v v v
>>
>> 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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