[Distutils] Expectations on how pip needs to change for Python 3.4

Matthias Klose doko at ubuntu.com
Tue Jul 16 19:36:42 CEST 2013


Am 13.07.2013 16:54, schrieb Paul Moore:
> 1. Install to user-packages by default.
> 2. Not depend on setuptools (??? - Nick's "inversion" idea)
> 3. Possibly change the wrapper command name from pip to pip3 on Unix.
> 4. Ensure that pip upgrading itself in-place is sufficiently robust and
> reliable that users don't get "stuck" on the Python-supplied version.

5. Support cross-compilation of extensions by default.



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