On 31 March 2016 at 11:46, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Chris Jerdonek <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> If this feature were working in setuptools, would pip need any changes >> to "install -e" to allow passing along this extra info to setuptools, >> or is there already a mechanism to allow pass-through of extra >> setuptools options? > > > Pip install has the --install-option and --global-option arguments, try your > luck with them - they are for fairly advanced usecases. Pip already passes > other options so there's risk of breakages or weird issues if you pass > conflicting options.
Setuptools also supports the standard setup.cfg mechanism. That may be an easier alternative. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
