we're discussing options over in the pip issue https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/986
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Jason R. Coombs <jar...@jaraco.com> > wrote: > > I think it would be highly desirable to add support for pip to handle the > > upgrade from distribute 0.6 to 0.7. You’ll note that because 0.7 depends > on > > setuptools 0.7 that 0.7 has already been downloaded. Perhaps a shim like > you > > propose would work, or it’s also conceivable that distribute 0.7 could > > include a setuptools 0.7 source tree which pip could leverage (but not > > install). > > Wild idea: Distribute 0.7 includes a non 2to3 source tree that doesn't > get installed. This would also solve the upgrade issue under Python 3, > and serve as an early test for getting rid of 2to3. :-) > > That might then mean that Distribute 0.7 would end up only be pip > ugradeable on Python 2.6 and later, but maybe that's OK? I certainly > don't mind. :-) > > //Lennart >
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