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On 04/25/2015 11:33 AM, Dave Walker wrote:
> I'm not going to pretend it is graceful... but is there a situation
> where _" isn't correct?

Ooh. This is a worthy avenue to explore ...

> $ cat setup.py
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> 
> from distutils.core import setup as _setup
> import os
> 
> def new_setup(**attrs):
>         if "pip" not in os.environ.get("_"):
>             raise SystemExit("Please use pip to install")
>         else:
>             _setup(**attrs)
> 
> setup = new_setup
> 
> setup(name='foobar',
>       version='1.0',
>       description='Foobar',
>      )
> 
> 
> --
> Kind Regards,
> Dave Walker
> 
> 
> On 25 April 2015 at 15:27, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:
>> On 04/25/2015 09:49 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
>>> On 2015-04-25 12:12:15 +1200 (+1200), Robert Collins wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> I'd like to make that a little more official:
>>>>  - put it in our docs
>>>>  - stop testing python setup.py install.
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> And emit a clear error message? (Even if that just means updating the
>>> setup.py boilerplate in the cookiecutter repo and encouraging
>>> projects to adopt the function.)
>>>
>>
>> Unfortunately there is no way to detect that you're being run via
>> setup.py install instead of pip. What will happen though is that
>> easy_install will get triggered  instead of egg_info/pip install ... so
>> we _could_ just do something to try to emit a warning around one of the
>> easy_install classes ...
>>
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