To supplement what Thomas said, yes, there is current some development effort in standardising development/editable installs. Much of the discussion happens here: https://discuss.python.org/t/next-steps-for-editable-develop-proof-of-concep...

On 01/7, 2020, at 17:15, Thomas Kluyver wrote:

Hi Fredrik,

You can do an editable install using whichever development tool you've chosen, e.g. Poetry. The poetry docs (https://python-poetry.org/docs/basic-usage/) say it does an editable install by default.

Currently, there isn't a standardised way for 'frontend' tools like pip to ask for an editable install.

Thomas

On Wed, 1 Jul 2020, at 10:03, fredrik@averpil.com wrote:

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Hi,

I have converted my setup.py to pyproject.toml and use poetry to build/manage deps. I maintain packages which also have dependency packages and I frequently use development installations locally ("pip install -e ../my-dep") so to develop dependencies at the same time as my main packages.

Q: With a pyproject.toml, can I enable some sort of development installation without also maintaining a setup.py - or is there a plan/PEP for enabling this without a setup.py?

Right now, I have a setup.py which needs to stipulate a number of things which is already in my pyproject.toml. In particular, I find it a little bothering that I need to specify the entry_points/console_scripts in both the pyproject.toml and in setup.py.

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