[Distutils] PEP 439 and pip bootstrap updated

[Richard Jones]

On 10 July 2013 14:19, Carl Meyer <carl at oddbird.net> wrote:
> They certainly do today, but that's primarily because pyvenv isn't very
> useful yet, since the stdlib has no installer and thus a newly-created
> pyvenv has no way to install anything in it.

Ah, thanks for clarifying that.


> Certainly if the bootstrap is ever ported to 2.7 or 3.2, it would make
> sense for it to install virtualenv there (or, probably even better, for
> pyvenv to be backported along with the bootstrap).

I intend to create two forks; one for consideration in a 2.7.5 release
as "pip" and the other for users of 2.6+ called "get-pip.py".


    Richard