On 13 Jul, 2013, at 7:31, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 3. That means there are two main options available to us that I still > consider viable alternatives (the installer bundling idea was suggested in > one of the off list comments I mentioned): > > * an explicit bootstrapping script > * bundling a *full* copy of pip with the Python installers for Windows and > Mac OS X, but installing it to site-packages rather than to the standard > library directory. That way pip can be used to upgrade itself as normal, > rather than making it part of the standard library per se. This is then > closer to the "bundled application" model adopted for IDLE in PEP 434 (we > could, in fact, move to distributing idle the same way). Or automaticly invoke the bootstrap script during installation (for the Python installers), that we the installers don't end up with a stale version of pip. Either option should be easy enough to add to the OSX installers. Ronald _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
