[Python-ideas] install pip packages from Python prompt

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/1/2017 1:25 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 1 November 2017 at 08:50, Terry Reedy 
> <tjreedy at udel.edu 
> <mailto:tjreedy at udel.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     In April 2016, after posting the idea to pydev list and getting 'go
>     ahead's from Nick Coughlin and someone else, with no negatives, I
>     approved Upendra Kumar's GSOC proposal to write a pip gui.  This was
>     https://bugs.python.org/issue27051
>     <https://bugs.python.org/issue27051>.  On June 20, Ned Deily and
>     Nick Coughlin vetoed adding a pip gui anywhere in the stdlib since
>     it depended on something not in the stdlib, and perhaps for other
>     reasons I don't fully understand.
> 
> 
> Clarifying the objection here (since the linked issue is a fairly long 
> one): what I'm against is tightly coupling the pip-gui development & 
> release process to the CPython development & release process when we 
> don't have any compelling reason to do so.

Thank you for clarifying. This is a reason that I did not understand ;-).

> Given an independently released pip-gui on PyPI (with its own version 
> numbering and release cadence), then I'd be +1 on bundling that as an 
> optional IDLE addon, ensurepip style.

I already agree in my second response on this thread that pip gui should 
be on pypi.

A pip gui would be a pip add-on, not an IDLE add-on, just as turtledemo 
is a turtle add-on even though one can invoke it from the IDLE menu -- 
as long as turtle and turtledemo are installed.

Issue 27051, write pip gui, is properly a separate issue from 
https://bugs.python.org/issue23551, start a pip gui, if and when 
available, from IDLE menu.  I am against 'tightly coupling' something to 
IDLE when there is 'no compelling reason to do so'.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy