[Distutils] question re: local development workflow / egg-info / synced directories

[Paul Moore]

On 31 March 2016 at 10:00, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <contact at ionelmc.ro> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> It would be nice if pip-installing a project directory in editable
>> mode didn't require writing to the project directory. Is there a
>> fundamental reason it needs to?
>
>
> I'd speculate that no one was annoyed enough to fix it.

Editable mode is basically managed by setuptools. So any fix would
need to be in setuptools, not pip. It's quite possible that the reason
editable mode doesn't get much love is that from a user's perspective
it seems like a pip issue, but the pip devs see it as a setuptools
problem they can't do much about. Not many users have the time or
inclination to follow up on a bug report with the downstream project,
so things tend to stay as they are.

Paul