If we change to suggesting pip/easy_install to be the preferred method of
installing, then we can include any other packages we need and not have to
"Vendorize" them.

On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 2015-12-25 at 13:15 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> >
> […]
> >
> > I should have said, I don't think we can make installing future a
> > requirement for using scons.
> >
> > In my case, I was using lineprofiler.  It does something strange
> > with
> > builtins, and the reason lineprofiler mysteriously stopped working
> > after
> > future was installed was hard to find.
>
> So the consequence of this is that we can only go to a level 1 futurize
> and then the rest needs to be manually hacked so that there is no
> future dependency? I suspect this means we will end up rewriting quite
> a chunk of future, though not the bits needed for Python 2.6.
>
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