Hi everyone, ensurepip includes private copies of pip and setuptools. But PEP 453 states that "once pip is able to run pip install --upgrade pip without needing setuptools installed first, then the private copy of setuptools will be removed from ensurepip in subsequent CPython releases." https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0453/#automatic-installation-of-setuptools
At the moment pip itself includes a needed part of setuptools. https://github.com/pypa/pip/tree/9c474d4862907ae220ced0fcdbd76660955ff732/src/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources I experimented with modifying ensurepip in the main branch not to install setuptools, and then used it to install pip. It worked fine. Then I run `./python -m pip install --upgrade pip`, and it upgraded pip successfully. Does this mean that we can drop the copy of setuptools? Note, the venv module has such code `CORE_VENV_DEPS = ('pip', 'setuptools')`. I am not sure whether it requires setuptools from ensurepip. Thanks, Illia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/3BVAUIQOEOXAULHVYQNLLQIZQQETX2EV/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
