[Distutils] Q about best practices now (or near future)

Marcus Smith qwcode at gmail.com
Thu Jul 18 19:01:32 CEST 2013


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> Marcus Smith <qwcode <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > the idea to have pip vendor setuptools crumbles a bit due to console
> scripts
> needing pkg_resources.
>
> They don't *need* pkg_resources. All they're doing is taking a module name
> and the name of a nested object in the form 'a.b.c', and distlib-generated
> scripts show that no external references are needed. Here's the template
> for
> a distlib-generated script:
>

pkg_resources scripts confirm the version.  don't see that here?  not
necessary?
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