[Distutils] setup_requires for dev environments

[Marcus Smith]

> For instance, if the problem is "when setuptools does the install, then
> things
> get installed differently, with different options, SSL certs, proxies, etc"
> then I think a better solution is that pip does terrible hacks in order to
> forcibly take control of setup_requires from setuptools and installs them
> into
> a temporary directory (or something like that). That is something that
> would
> require no changes on the part of authors or people installing software,
> and
> is backwards compatible with everything that's already been published using
> setup_requires.


Donald, could you add a pip issue for the "forcibly take control" idea (if
we don't have one already?)
this comes up a fair amount, and it would be nice to be able to link to
this.
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