python package management confusion

[Oscar Benjamin]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 21:12, dcs3spp via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
>
> Pip 18.1 supports reading pep508 direct urls from install_requires. In future release there are plans to deprecate the --process-dependency-links pip install option:
> - https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/4187
> - https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/4175
>
> Will setuptools provide ability to use direct pep508 urls in install_requires in the future also?

Someone might answer here but if not I suggest asking this on distutils-sig:
https://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/distutils-sig/

Also:
https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues

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Oscar