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it feels like a loss for virtual environments to lose a basic `pip` script when they don't suffer from this problem. as for real pythons I guess I wouldn't mind...

starting with pip v7, pip supports using `--install-option` per line (i.e. per requirement) in a requirements file, which provides a solution for your need. in this use case, `--install-option` is...

just a minor point of order.. this should be in the "unpublished" directory. it's not really PEP497 yet, and there's actually something else now taking PEP497

also, to add to the description, moving out the environment markers section (into PEP 496)

It think approach #3 is becoming more common (I use it now btw), but it's hard for me to say what is globally "more common", w/o doing some kind of...

> You could always just add myproject/_version which is just a text file btw, this is already presented as one of the options... #4

- this PR (https://github.com/poise/python/pull/85), but it's unmerged - puppet's core pip provider: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/master/lib/puppet/provider/package/pip.rb#L77 - and my company has an internal puppet module (that might go open source) that relies on...

cc @coderanger

the module we use at work uses a python helper module (that uses pip to handle the parsing), so no rewriting of pip in ruby. but regardless, the issue is...

but I'm thinking it's more than just allowing arbitrary fragments. we should document the convention. moreover, pip might start using the conventions itself for fast determination of fulfillment: - if...