On 7 September 2017 at 14:26, RonnyPfannschmidt <opensou...@ronnypfannschmidt.de> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > i'd like to propose a common tooling for installing packages in editable > mode > which is based on generating an actual wheel, which includes shim files > for the python packages > allows to sanely instal/uninstall editable packages
So pip install -e ., instead of installing a .pth file which included the current directory on sys.path, would install a set of .py files which loaded the actual code from the current directory? That sounds like a plausible approach, and it would certainly stop editable installs being quite as much of a special case as they currently are. One thought - how would you handle C extensions? In principle, though, this sounds like a good idea. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
