PJ Eby <pje <at> telecommunity.com> writes: > ended for setuptools on Python 2, or at least Python <2.6. (The > distinction being that distlib seems to be heavily reliant on features > that only exist in 2.6+.)
The reason for setting 2.6 as the minimum version supported is that one can easily have a single codebase for 2.6+ and 3.x. Once that minimum is set, one might as well use the features available, where appropriate. > Or, to put it somewhat differently, if pkg_resources ever ends up in > the stdlib, it should probably happen in the form of a distlib > wrapper. The subset of pkg_resources used by pip has already been wrapped in a compatibility shim called "pip.compat.pkg_resources" [1] which uses distlib to implement the functions used. With this shim in place all pip tests pass, but it's early days :-) However, I view that as a transitional stage which allows pip to gradually move over to calling distlib directly, while not rocking the boat too much. Regards, Vinay Sajip [1] https://github.com/vsajip/pip/blob/use-distlib/pip/compat/pkg_resources.py _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
