On 13 February 2016 at 04:12, Daniel Holth <[email protected]> wrote:
> My setup-requires wrapper, adding pre-setup.py dependency installation to
> setup.py, relies on this feature. It needs to install something in a
> directory that is only added to PYTHONPATH during the installation and does
> not interfere with the normal environment.

Python packages that create (and need) scripts, or use data_files,
won't work with --target. Using a --prefix and setting PYTHONPATH
*and* PATH appropriately would be better.

-Rob


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