[Python-Dev] PEP 477: selected ensurepip backports for Python 2.7

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 08:00:14 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That part of the proposal proved to be controversial, so we dropped it from
> the original PEP in order to focus on meeting the Python 3.4 specific
> release deadlines. This also had the benefit of working out the kinks in
> the bootstrapping processing as part of the Python 3.4 release cycle.
> 
> However, we still think we should start providing pip by default to Python
> 2.7 users as well, at least as part of the Windows and Mac OS X installers.

I don't agree with this. pip is simply not part of the 2.7 feature set.
If you add pip to a bugfix version, then you have bugfix versions which
are more featureful than others, which makes things more complicated to
explain.

Regards

Antoine.