On October 6, 2015 at 9:08:12 AM, Antoine Pitrou (solip...@pitrou.net) wrote: > On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 08:57:12 -0400 > Donald Stufft wrote: > > > > It doesn't really make experimenting in a VCS any harder, since all you > > need to > > do first is run ``pip install -e .`` and it will do a development install > > and > > add the src/ directory to sys.path. > > That means you're suddently polluting your Python install with a > development package. So either you create a dedicated virtualenv (more > command-line boilerplate, including each time you switch from a project > another) or you risk messing with other package installs. >
Unless your project has zero dependencies you’ll want to use a dedicated virtual environment anyways. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig