On 18 August 2016 at 11:45, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > One "lite" version of setuptools that I personally think would be cool would > be pkg_resources as a separate package on pypi. Setuptools would require it > as a dependency.
I finally managed to relocate a discussion Jason, Donald and I had about this a couple of months ago: https://github.com/ncoghlan/pkg_resources_shim/issues/1 (The idea there was to make "pip install pkg_resources" just work by implicitly installing setuptools - at the moment running that command errors out, since Donald reserved the name on PyPI to prevent anyone using it as an attack vector against folks actually looking for setuptools) Creating a standalone "pkg_resources" project turns out to be relatively straightforward, but *removing* pkg_resources from setuptools turns out to create significant setuptools bootstrapping problems. That means the standalone project would need to use a different name, and any associated bugs would subsequently need to be fixed in two different projects, which seems like a bad idea. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
