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There are several options to control the precise behavior of the ``develop``
command; see the section on the `develop`_ command below for more details.
+Note that you can also apply setuptools commands to non-setuptools projects,
+using commands like this::
+
+ python -c "import setuptools; execfile('setup.py')" develop
+
+That is, you can simply list the normal setup commands and options following
+the quoted part.
+
Distributing a ``setuptools``-based project
===========================================