Plugins Do Not Work With Pip Install

[rmorshea]

Plugins which modify package metadata cannot be used if the package is installed from source using pip. For example, I am using poetry-dynamic-versioning to set my package's version, and I also have a script that installs my package using pip install 'my-package @ git+ssh://[email protected]/my/repo.git. I suspect that this is not uncommon amongst smaller and/or less mature organizations. While this wouldn't be a problem if my-package were uploaded to a PyPI repository using Poetry, I unfortunately don't have the time to remedy that situation.

I haven't confirmed this myself, but I don't think Hatch suffers from this problem. With Hatch, to use a similar plugin that modifies package metadata at build-time when running pip install, you'd just need to add that plugin to build-system.requires. Doing the same thing with Poetry doesn't seem to work.