> Just assuming that every sdist with old metadata requires setuptools would > work, although it will be strange to see that some packages @work that use > plain disutils suddenly seem to require setuptool :-)
pip does this already, importing setuptools before running any setup.py >> These improved installers will target both 2.7 and 3.4. I do understand that >> some people feel it is harder to say "manually download the installer and >> then install what you want" rather than "manually download and install the >> package you want". > > No me. I'm glad to see that the hard work by everyone working in the > packaging space is coming to fruition. Infrastructure work is almost never > glamorous, and work on Python's packaging system appears to be more stressful > than average. You said it. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
