[Distutils] pip install from source dir??

[Donald Stufft]

``pip install path/to/directory/with/setup.py/in/it/``

On October 2, 2015 at 5:38:29 PM, Chris Barker (chris.barker at noaa.gov) wrote:
> I can't seem to find a way to pip install from a source dir -- not a
> tarball.
> 
> Why would I want to do that?
> 
> In this case, it's because I'm trying to build conda packages for python
> packages that have compiled C code, and are not using setuptools.
> 
> On Windows, you need to use setuptools in order to use the "MS compiler for
> Python 2.7". So a straight "setup.py build" fails.
> 
> But pip injects setuptools, so that "pip install" does work. But conda has
> already unpacked the source distribution, so I'd like to point pip at that,
> and can't find a way to do that (I could have sworn it was possible...)
> 
> Do I have to build an sdist, and then point pip at that??
> 
> -CHB
> 
> 
> 
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