On 18 July 2013 08:29, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > Personally I think pip should be vendoring setuptools regardless. A > package manager with dependencies is strange and there have been quite a > few problems caused by setuptools getting in a bad state.
Agrred on the dependency point (but I don't consider "depends on something bundled with Python" as being an external dependency, hence my question). As regards vendoring, I'm reserving judgement until I see the code - I think getting something working is more important than discussing what might be hard to implement... Paul
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