my suggestion would be provide a whl_setup.py that works in a fashion similar to the current ez_setup
however instead of using easy_install + eggs, it would use pip install --target into a folder relative to the setup.py that invoked it if there was a mechanism to prevent pip from invoking setup.py with its stub, that system could even be used to install more recent setuptools itself into the "setup site" a setup.py would then just use whl_setup to get at setuptools, and as a nice extra, it could hijack the install_requirements method of a distrbution, so pip would be used to install the requirements into the "setup site" as well that way we could get rid of the need for eggs to make setup_requires nice, and could just have pip deal with all the details in addition it could bail out on too old pip (after all it needs a properly working install target support to provide the "setup site" with packages, and a even newer pip version should the stub-disabling be implemented) -- Ronny On 10/21/2015 08:35 PM, Daniel Holth wrote: > Take this setup.py that implements setup requirements (requirements > needed for setup.py itself to run) > https://bitbucket.org/dholth/setup-requires/src/tip/setup.py > > Require your new build system using that mechanism, by mentioning it > in setup.cfg > > Then instead of calling setup() from setuptools at the bottom, emulate > the setup.py build system interface documented > at > http://pip.readthedocs.org/en/stable/reference/pip_install/#build-system-interface > to > invoke new build system. Check to make sure whether pip accepts > .dist-info when calling the egg_info command. > > Then write a command for new build system that adds the shim setup.py > to an sdist. > > Now you have a setup.py that can download and install new-build-system > and interoperate with pip, without having to change pip at all. > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
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