[question] Conan package requires pip packages

[xakod]

What is your question?

Does conan provide any way to install pip packages? For example, I need some pip packages only for test package. So I don't want to install it globally. I know, I can use pip install pkg from conanfile but maybe conan provide something by default. Thanx

Have you read the CONTRIBUTING guide?

• I've read the CONTRIBUTING guide

[memsharded]

Hi @Jihadist

Thanks for your question.
Installing pip packages is not a simple thing, because you need a Python installation to install them. If that is the installation that is running Conan, pip easily cause version conflicts and other problems. If Conan is running with the self-contained executable, no pip packages can be installed there, because it is a bundled executable without a site-packages.

I think this is a duplicate question, and it is being managed already in this proposal for 2.X roadmap in #11601. It is based on the idea of creating virtualenvs on the fly to be able to install pip packages there. I am closing this issue, please track the efforts in that issue, progress will be reported there when the 2.X roadmap issue gets prioritized. Thanks!