Extract _requirement_spec method for rendering the requirement specification for scripts. Ref #439.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/setuptools/command/easy_install.py b/setuptools/command/easy_install.py
index 45d180bb..2faff4c2 100755
--- a/setuptools/command/easy_install.py
+++ b/setuptools/command/easy_install.py
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ class easy_install(Command):
 
     def install_script(self, dist, script_name, script_text, dev_path=None):
         """Generate a legacy script wrapper and install it"""
-        spec = str(dist.as_requirement())
+        spec = self._requirement_spec(dist)
         is_script = is_python_script(script_text, script_name)
 
         if is_script:
@@ -775,6 +775,10 @@ class easy_install(Command):
         self.write_script(script_name, _to_ascii(script_text), 'b')
 
     @staticmethod
+    def _requirement_spec(dist):
+        return str(dist.as_requirement())
+
+    @staticmethod
     def _load_template(dev_path):
         """
         There are a couple of template scripts in the package. This