[Python-Dev] PEP 365 (was Re: PEP: per user site-packages directory)

[Brett Cannon]

On Jan 21, 2008 1:46 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > What I meant was that we could include an easy_install.py whose sole
> > function is to ensure that setuptools is installed and then invoke
> > the "real" easy_install.  Thus, the first time you ran easy_install,
> > a current version would be downloaded, and thereafter the real one
> > would be runnable.
>
> Despite my (well-known) objections to setuptools as the foundation for
> the .egg format (and everything that comes with it), I think that would
> be a desirable and easy thing to do. Including a setuptools bootstrapper
> into the distribution still leaves the choice of actually using
> setuptools to the end user.

What Martin said, almost verbatim. =)

-Brett