At 01:13 AM 5/29/2010 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
The problem I have with this approach is that we need to manage somewhere at PyPI a list of potential installers, and maybe deal with upgrades and replacements. Plus, I am not sure that a user will really understand what to do when he's asked to chose an installer. Sounds like something we should only ask to power users, and people that know what they are doing with p7g. So a bootstrap script is useless for them.
Actually, the way it would (presumably) work would be just a script like Guido's that downloads a source archive from PyPI and runs setup.py install. So, it's not really a matter of "choosing" an installer -- it'd just be, "download and install a package from source".
If the package itself needs one of those other things in order to build itself or install dependencies, then the next stage of bootstrap is its problem (e.g. via ez_setup), not the stdlib's.
So, I don't see the "power users only" objection making sense, at least if we drop back to what I believe was Guido's original proposal for a bootstrap script a few years ago.
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