On 23 August 2017 at 05:24, xoviat <xov...@gmail.com> wrote: > The question that I have is: how does flit address this issue? Does flit > require external dependencies to bootstrap itself?
It does, but those dependencies currently use setuptools as their packaging system rather than flit. Bootstrapping self-hosted packaging tools is a genuinely hard problem - it's why pip vendors most of its dependencies, and relies on preinstalled SSL/TLS support in the standard library. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
