On Jul 19, 2013, at 11:27 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 July 2013 02:31, Marcus Smith <qwc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> * decide on a bundling or explicit bootstrapping scheme for pip >>> (this still needs a PEP to help clarify the pros and cons of the >>> various alternatives) >> >> >> if we improve things enough so that the get-pip.py experience is reliable >> and robust (and handles setuptools if not bundled), then might that be >> enough for now? >> (see the options here: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1049) >> i.e. improve pip's installer experience, and then come back around to >> bundling/bootstrap with python. > > If we can figure out a consistent download-and-run experience that > doesn't assume the availability of curl or wget, I think so. > Alternatively (as I think Donald suggested?) a simple download-and-run > Windows executable or installer would be friendlier for people that > may not be used to configuring the Windows command line (even if it > still relied on get-pip.py to do the heavy lifting in terms of > actually getting pip onto the system). It doesn't help that the > Microsoft provided UI for configuring environment variables hasn't > seen any serious improvements in the better part of two decades :P > > Also, if we'd like to do cert verification in the bootstrap script, > keep in mind the fact that Python 2.6+ supports executable zip > archives, so long as they have a __main__.py file at the top level. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig Folks are aware that get-pip.py includes an entire pip installation griped inside of it right? So if we ship get-pip.py we're shipping pip, which we'll then use to install pip over the network … instead of just shipping pip. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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