If I am not wrong, that is a possibility for other commands (e.g. sdist
, bdist_wheel
, etc …) but not for the install
command.
I think effectively extending install
is deprecated because the logic to install packages now belongs to pip (and python setup.py install
should not be used).
Unless, of course, you are using some shenanigans to customize how bdist_whell
organize the file structure of the final zip archive. In that case, this is not supported yet by how setuptools handles --config-settings
and the workaround would be something similar to what Miro described.