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use pip via subprocess, not pip.main #57

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@ggilmore ggilmore commented Jun 14, 2018

pip doesn't have a public api for a good reason. It has broken at least three times over the past few months, and we gain nothing by using pip as a module versus just using it as a sub-process.

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The most recent breakage was due to pip moving the location of the main() function that we were using.

@ggilmore ggilmore merged commit 3ae1efa into master Jun 14, 2018
@ggilmore ggilmore deleted the pip-no-main branch June 14, 2018 19:10
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