[Distutils] PEP453 - Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Fri Aug 30 17:49:45 CEST 2013


On Aug 30, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> What about a --without-pip option?

Added this and the grammar mistakes you noted (I suck at this english thing~).

> This should specify if it is ever expected to be kept in the CPython repo (and thus distributed in the source tarball) or if it will simply be bundled in the installers (and thus never included with the source).

Nick may say differently (he's much more "in tune" with what files are owned by which processes) but I'd expect that the ``getpip`` module will be included as a normal part of the standard library and with it a tarball (or a Wheel) containing the sources of the bundled software.

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