> Come to think of it it would be pretty easy to implement this feature > without involving pip at all by writing a small setup.py replacement > that knows how to look for and install the aforementioned > requirements. If it does not finds them then it shells out to pip to > install them in a build-dep directory. It adds build-dep to sys.path, > and runs real-setup.py in its own process. >
this technique would be a great topic for the PPUG please post if you write it up. > since setup.py needs setup_requires to be installed before it can run, this feature is crap well, you can write command extensions that depend on "setup_requires" projects. what's an example you're thinking of, for one of these "abstractions"?
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