[Distutils] Package in both setup_requires and install_requires will not be installed

[Michael Hoffman]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 12:42 AM 9/18/2007 +0100, Michael Hoffman wrote:
>> Michael Hoffman wrote:
>>
>>> If you specify a package in setup_requires it will be built in the
>>> current directory. But even if it is in install_requires as well, it
>>> won't be installed because the requirement is already satisfied at setup
>>> time by the package in the build directory.
>> I came up with this workaround:
>>
>>from setuptools.command.install import install
>> class SubprocessEasyInstall(install):
>>      def run(self):
>>          install.run(self)
>>
>>          args = [sys.executable, "-m", "easy_install"] + setup_requires
>>          check_call(args)
>>
>> And in the setup() call, ensure you include:
>>
>> cmdclass=dict(install=SubprocessEasyInstall)
>>
>> This will easy_install the setup_requires in a separate process which is
>> unpolluted by the distributions already downloaded during setup.
> 
> Don't do this.  It will do evil things if for example someone runs 
> "setup.py install --help", or uses indeed any options or arguments to 
> 'install' at all.
> 
> It will also break the bdist_rpm, bdist_wininst, and other commands, 
> which invoke 'install' as a subcommand, with various options set.

Would you like to suggest a better workaround? I'd rather avoid doing 
this but the even consequences you outline are better to me than 
``setup.py install`` failing to install the specified prerequisites.

Thanks,
Michael