pypa/pip — pull request #1068 by dholth (2013-07-20 17:14:45+00:00)
Title: vendor pkg_resources and install setuptools on demand

This is a rough PR for discussion.

This version of pip uses its own copy of pkg_resources and installs setuptools when it needs it. It doesn't necessarily play nice with the install command and it probably fetches the first package that needed setuptools twice.

I think some of the bdist_wheel "needs setuptools to --use-wheel" checks (no longer the case after this patch) were mixed up with the "needs setuptools to build wheels" check that will be necessary.