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Expand Up @@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ Packages Not On PyPI

Sometimes you'll want to use packages that are properly arranged with setuptools, but aren't published to PyPI. In those cases, you can specify a list of one or more ``dependency_links`` URLs where the package can be downloaded, along with some additional hints, and setuptools will find and install the package correctly.

*Edit on 2017-03-23 : Dependency Links are now considered as deprecated in Python Wheels. `pip install` would not consider `dependency_links` in the installation.*

*Reference: http://serverfault.com/questions/608192/pip-install-seems-to-be-ignoring-dependency-links *

For example, if a library is published on GitHub, you can specify it like::

setup(
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