On 7 September 2017 at 14:26, RonnyPfannschmidt <opensource@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