[issue20417] ensurepip should not be installed with --without-ensurepip

Nick Coghlan added the comment: As Donald notes, this was explicitly covered in the PEP: the onus is on the distros to make ensurepip and pyvenv work in a way that complies with their debundling requirements (e.g. by using rewheel, or redirecting to the system installer). The "--without-ensur

[issue20417] ensurepip should not be installed with --without-ensurepip

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[issue20417] ensurepip should not be installed with --without-ensurepip

Donald Stufft added the comment: Yes I am aware of that. However ensurepip is also required to maintain functionality of the "venv" module in 3.4. See the guidelines in http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0453/#recommendations-for-downstream-distributors which explicitly mentions the fact that

[issue20417] ensurepip should not be installed with --without-ensurepip

Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis added the comment: Some distributions have policies about not bundling external code. ensurepip currently bundles some versions of setuptools and pip. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue20417] ensurepip should not be installed with --without-ensurepip

Donald Stufft added the comment: I don't see any reason not to install ensurepip in this situation. That flag controls whether or not ``python -m ensurepip`` will be executed during the install, but ensurepip itself will still be installed. It is not an optional module -- ___

[issue20417] ensurepip should not be installed with --without-ensurepip

New submission from Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis: ensurepip should not be installed when --without-ensurepip was passed to configure. I attach the patch. -- assignee: dstufft components: Installation files: ensurepip_installation.patch keywords: patch messages: 209536 nosy: Arfre