On Jan 21, 2008 1:46 PM, "Martin v. Löwis"
<martinv.loewis.de> wrote:
> > What I meant was that we could include an
easy_install.py whose sole
> > function is to ensure that setuptools is installed
and then invoke
> > the "real" easy_install.  Thus, the
first time you ran easy_install,
> > a current version would be downloaded, and
thereafter the real one
> > would be runnable.
>
> Despite my (well-known) objections to setuptools as the
foundation for
> the .egg format (and everything that comes with it), I
think that would
> be a desirable and easy thing to do. Including a
setuptools bootstrapper
> into the distribution still leaves the choice of
actually using
> setuptools to the end user.

What Martin said, almost verbatim. =)

-Brett
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