A detailed description on virtualenv's packaging dependecies? (pip, easy_install, wheel, setuptools, distlib, etc.)

2017-01-13 Thread haraldnordgren
I was working on a bugfix for Virtualenv, regarding very long shebang lines that are breaking things. In the process, I realized that if I want really fix to my particular issue it likely needs to be done on the lower level of Python package management. I started with pip, moved to setuptools an

Running Virtualenv with a custom distlib?

2017-01-13 Thread haraldnordgren
I want to do some development on `distlib`, and in the process run the code via `virtualenv` which has distlib as a dependency. That is, not run the process inside a virtualenv, but run virtualenv's code using a custom dependency. What are the steps I need to go through to achieve this? It see