On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Ram Rachum <cool...@cool-rr.com> wrote: > > I've asked before about bundling Distribute. But now I ask, is it > possible to > > pull out the `pkg_resources` module from the Distribute folder and bundle > only > > that with my project? > > Technically, yes : it's a standalone module that depends only on the > stdlib. > Great. So I can just yank out the `pkg_resources.py` file and it should work? > What would be the use case for this ? I don't think it's the best > practice to bundle > other projects modules like that in most cases. > > Up to now I've been requiring my users to install Distribute, but one of them expressed reluctance to install it, partly because of the shadowing of setuptools. Ram.
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