fyi, I'm updating donald's original setuptools bundle issue with all of this as the choices become clearer https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1049
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Marcus Smith <qwc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > virtualenv /tmp/builder >> /tmp/builder/bin/pip wheel -w /tmp/wheels -r requirements.txt >> > > people will expect to be able to do this globally (i.e not in a > virtualenv). that's when the headache starts > > It does not try to avoid the non-problem of installing setuptools when you >> actually need it >> > > it's a practical problem for users, due to being currently responsible for > fulfilling the setuptools dependency themselves in non-virtualenv > environments > IMO, we need to bundle or install it for them (through dynamic installs, > or add the logic to get-pip) >
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