[pypy-dev] Virtualenv

[Armin Rigo]

Hi Donald,

On 13 May 2014 13:18, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> The idea behind ensurepip is that instead of shipping pip, you ship a bootstrap
> which will install pip for you.

I see why you'd want this in CPython 3.x, but the reasons for
supporting this are much less clear to me with PyPy2.  I doubt that
pip would suddenly require an urgent upgrade of its installed version,
which cannot wait until the next official PyPy release.  But I don't
see the drawback of having ensurepip available as well, so I guess we
can have both that and a pre-installed pip.

About virtualenv, if it's as simple as providing one standard script
in our binaries for the user that doesn't have it already installed
for CPython from his Linux distribution (Windows users, looking at
you)... then I really don't see why we shouldn't.


A bientôt,

Armin.