I'm not going to pretend it is graceful... but is there a situation where _" isn't correct?
$ cat setup.py #!/usr/bin/env python from distutils.core import setup as _setup import os def new_setup(**attrs): if "pip" not in os.environ.get("_"): raise SystemExit("Please use pip to install") else: _setup(**attrs) setup = new_setup setup(name='foobar', version='1.0', description='Foobar', ) -- Kind Regards, Dave Walker On 25 April 2015 at 15:27, Monty Taylor <mord...@inaugust.com> wrote: > On 04/25/2015 09:49 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: >> On 2015-04-25 12:12:15 +1200 (+1200), Robert Collins wrote: >> [...] >>> I'd like to make that a little more official: >>> - put it in our docs >>> - stop testing python setup.py install. >> [...] >> >> And emit a clear error message? (Even if that just means updating the >> setup.py boilerplate in the cookiecutter repo and encouraging >> projects to adopt the function.) >> > > Unfortunately there is no way to detect that you're being run via > setup.py install instead of pip. What will happen though is that > easy_install will get triggered instead of egg_info/pip install ... so > we _could_ just do something to try to emit a warning around one of the > easy_install classes ... > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev