conda pip should have --pkg-name, ... option

[ilanschnell]

Just like conda package:

  --pkg-name PKG_NAME   package name of the created package
  --pkg-version PKG_VERSION
                        package version of the created package
  --pkg-build PKG_BUILD
                        package build number of the created package

[ilanschnell]

Probably not an issue anymore, as we now have the ability to build from conda recipes.

[mforbes]

@ilanschnell Could you please add a note to this issue about how one should use recipes to get the equivalent behaviour of conda pip --pkg-name etc. as this is not yet clear from the documentation. (This note should probably also be added to the deprecation message for the pip command.)

[ilanschnell]

@mforbes That depends which part of the conda pip you are interested in. If you just want to install a package using pip, then just use pip directly. If you want to create a package (also for others to use), then "conda build" is the command to use, which gives much better control over how the conda-package is build, and optionally it can be uploaded to binstar.org.

The "conda pip" command has been deprecated because of several reasons:

• We added "conda build" in version 1.7
• It does two many things at once (builds and installs a conda-package)
• Is too Python specific (conda is a Python agnostic packaging tool)
• It is confusing, i.e. it makes people believe that using pip directly not possible

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