pypa/pip — pull request #397 by danse (2011-12-07 16:30:22+00:00)
Title: change to make file:// urls to work for custom dependencies

Added a strip that will allow urls in the form 'file:///path/to/dir#egg=project-dev' to be successfully used in the "dependency_links" option of setuptools setup.

I was using pip and that was failing on a package available in the local filesystem. with this change it works.