<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
For instance, if the problem is "when setuptools does the install, then things<br>
get installed differently, with different options, SSL certs, proxies, etc"<br>
then I think a better solution is that pip does terrible hacks in order to<br>
forcibly take control of setup_requires from setuptools and installs them into<br>
a temporary directory (or something like that). That is something that would<br>
require no changes on the part of authors or people installing software, and<br>
is backwards compatible with everything that's already been published using<br>
setup_requires. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Donald, could you add a pip issue for the "forcibly take control" idea (if we don't have one already?)<br></div><div>this comes up a fair amount, and it would be nice to be able to link to this.<br></div></div><br></div></div>