The correct way to do that these days is `pip install -e .` AFAIK. Setuptools should be considered an implementation detail of installs at best, not really used directly anymore (though entry points are still used by some projects, so this isn't really a strict dichotomy).

--Noah

On May 2, 2016, at 12:03 AM, Thomas Güttler <guettliml@thomas-guettler.de> wrote:

I was told this:

`python setup.py develop` uses urllib2 to download distributions whereas pip uses requests

Souce: http://stackoverflow.com/a/36958874/633961

This can create confusing situations and I want to avoid this.

Is there a way to use only **one** way to install python packages?

Do wheels help here?

Or is there a way to use npm for python packages?

Regards,
 Thomas Güttler

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