[Distutils] setup_requires for dev environments

[Daniel Holth]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Ionel Cristian Mărieș
<contact at ionelmc.ro> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
> <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
>>
>> I don't want it downloading and installing dependencies when I go to
>> build. That's an install- time task.
>
>
> Sounds to me like you should not use setup_requires then - if you don't like
> what it does.

The behavior we're aiming for would be:

"installer run setup.py" - installs things
"python setup.py" - does not install things