can't pip install -e menpo on top of conda (pillow)

[jabooth]

ideally I would like to be able to install menpo via the official instructions, and then once in the menpo conda env:

(menpo) > conda install pip cython nose
(menpo) > git clone git@github.com:jabooth/menpo.git
(menpo) > pip install -e ./menpo

This should softlink the dev version of menpo over the top of the official install, so I can develop menpo as normal.

Unfortunately, pip install -e ./menpo installs pillow, which as we well know borks conda imaging.

Any ideas how we can resolve this @patricksnape?

[jabooth]

simple workaround:

pip install --no-deps -e ./menpo

but I'll leave the issue up as it would be nice to resolve the conda imaging vs pillow problem.

[patricksnape]

I've started discussing this here, but the discussion might move.