[00:10:41] <dstufft> jaraco: another question! Right now setuptools has markerlib vendored as a top level _markerlib, pip vendors stuff inside of pip._vendor.wahtever, would you prefer having packaging as _packaging or setuptools._vendor.packaging ?
[00:11:31] <jaraco> dstufft, the latter is better.
[00:11:52] <jaraco> _markerlib isn't actually vendored anymore, but is a fork that's diverged from the official release.
[00:12:39] <dstufft> is there some command flags I can use to make setuptools install something into a particular directory as an unpacked egg... or would it be better to just use pip do that?
[00:14:00] <jaraco> dstufft, I'm not sure. Probably just use pip if you're talking about a manual vendoring process. If it's something that has to happen mechanically (i.e. when running builds or continuous integration), I'd rather it not require pip.