Should we keep vendoring dependencies?

[Changaco]

Picking up from #2 (comment)

Do we want all projects who have dependencies to vendor in virtualenv, setuptools, pip, etc? Why do we expect python to be installed (since we don't vendor it) but not virtualenv and the packaging tools?

The goal of vendoring is to allow offline hacking, right? Why isn't it enough to have a simple reminder in the README that you need to run make env or whatever before going offline?

[chadwhitacre]

I'm fine to not vendor dependencies on AspenWeb projects.

[chadwhitacre]

@pjz is -1 on vendoring.

[Changaco]

Okay, then let's drop vendoring entirely, it'll be easier than to use Git LFS. I'll make a PR, and once it's merged we'll rebase 527 on top of master.