> For instance, if the problem is "when setuptools does the install, then > things > get installed differently, with different options, SSL certs, proxies, etc" > then I think a better solution is that pip does terrible hacks in order to > forcibly take control of setup_requires from setuptools and installs them > into > a temporary directory (or something like that). That is something that > would > require no changes on the part of authors or people installing software, > and > is backwards compatible with everything that's already been published using > setup_requires.
Donald, could you add a pip issue for the "forcibly take control" idea (if we don't have one already?) this comes up a fair amount, and it would be nice to be able to link to this.
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