That's certainly possible, bento does exactly this. You would write a setup.py that would like like:

import setuptools
from bento.distutils.monkey_patch import monkey_patch
monkey_patch()
setuptools.setup()

then you can do python setup.py install/build/sdist/etc... without actually using distutils.

David


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth@gmail.com> wrote:
> This kind of thing will require us to implement a flag that tells pip
> "setup.py cannot install; go through wheel" which is somewhere in the
> plans..

couldn't you write a file called "setup.py", with the core API (i.e setup.py build | install), but that called waf instead of distutils to do the actual work?

or does pip doe more than simply call the setup.py script?

-Chris
 


 
> I don’t think there is any plans to tell pip *not* to use a setup.py and to
> use a Wheel instead. Rather I think the plans are to enable pluggable
> builders so that a sdist 2.0 package doesn’t rely on setup.py and could use
> a waf builder (for instance) plugin.

Just a flag that tells pip it can't use the "install" command and has
to do package -> install package on an sdist.
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