On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 16:25, Coyot Linden (Glenn Glazer)
This is one of those cases, where those of us who have been around Python for awhile can perhaps infer from context which his meant, but the phrase "put your Python project into development mode" is ambiguous in a way that is different from your example.
The commonly used packaging terminology is actually "editable mode" (at least in the sense that that's what most people seem to call it, so knowing and using that term will get better results from Google ;-)). If you feel inclined to raise a PR against the pip documentation to prefer that term, it can be discussed over there (but note that the underlying setuptools command is `setup.py develop` and that's not likely to change, as it's hard-coded in a number of applications, including pip). But ultimately, I think the reality is that there *are* terminology confusions all over the place in computing, much like in any other discipline (I'm currently teaching someone music, and the number of terms that get re-used in different contexts there is even worse than computing!) So I think that ultimately, beginners simply need to get used to understanding that terms can be context-dependent. It's not easy, and as teachers we can do what we can to make things clearer, but we can't ever completely make such problems go away. Paul