At 10:53 AM 3/17/2008 -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote: >I don't think this should play games with scripts being overridden or >whatever. If a bootstrap script is to be installed it should have a >separate name. I'm not sure what the advantage is of a bootstrap >script over "python -m bootstrap_module ..." though.
And -m also makes explicit: 1. that it's a Python-specific tool 2. which Python version it will apply to >The PEP suggests that other package managers also benefit. How do they >benefit if the bootstrap script installs setuptools? Because those other package managers depend, in fact, on setuptools, or at least pkg_resources... which was why the original proposal was to just include pkg_resources in the first place. :) >I'd also like to avoid the specific name "easy_install" for any of >this. That's a "brand name" (and a misleading one if you ask me, but >that's politics again :-). Ok, so if someone will propose a name and API for the thing, I'll implement it. (Assuming the proposed API is sane and reasonably implementable, of course.) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
