bdist_wheel being run instead of install, advice needed

[AndrewAnnex]

Hey so in my setup.py https://github.com/AndrewAnnex/SpiceyPy/blob/master/setup.py, I implement the install command for my package as I need to build and bundle a shared library which I do at "build time" aka the run time of my setup.py.

I noticed that on my mac if I run pip install spiceypy to install from pypi, pip attempts to build a wheel instead of running my install command (I see "Running setup.py bdist_wheel for spiceypy" in the terminal). Because this side-steps the Install command it does hit my code which builds the shared library. If I instead install using --no-cache-dir that appears to trigger the correct behavior (the Install command is executed instead).

I can see the logic in pip at https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/b9feb191a90e6ed4ef376d41ea9c1a896861f65b/src/pip/_internal/commands/install.py#L282 which explains why disabling the cache works.

Could I get a recommendation for a fix? It seems that I need to override the behavior of bdist_wheel using the cmdclass dict, but I think that would mean needing to depend on pip and or wheel directly which seems like a bad way to fix. Is there a cleaner way to do this?

Thanks