Interestingly, conda actually does "setup.py install" in the recipe for numpy:
indeed -- many, many conda packages do setup.py install, whihc doesn't mean it's a good idea --personally, I'm trying hard to switch them all to:
pip install ./
:-)
Which reminds me, the conda skelaton command craes a pip install build.sh file -- I really need to submit a PR for that ...
There are two cases where a 'pip install' run might go off and start downloading packages without asking you:
for my part, regular old setup.py isntall oftem goes off and istalls sutff too - using easy_install, which really sucks...
This is making me want a setuptools-lite again -- see the distutils SIG if you're curious.
-CHB
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