You should recommend using pip for it, mostly because as you said that will work even with packages that don't use setuptools :-) It also is required when doing a develop install with extras, though that requires a slightly more verbose syntax due to a bug in pip.
--Noah On Apr 6, 2014, at 8:01 PM, Asheesh Laroia <li...@asheesh.org> wrote: > Hi lovely distutils people, > > I have a question, as I prepare for my "Python packaging simplified, for end > users, app developers, and open source contributors" talk. I'm sure I'll have > more; I'll end up probably making a few threads about them, since they'll > come to me at random times. > > > For years, I've been recommending: > > $ python setup.py develop > > > as a standard way to make something hackable and available in a virtualenv. I > notice that "python setup.py develop --user" exists, which is great, as it > means that you don't even need to bother with the virtualenv. > > > Having said that, I also notice that: > > $ pip install -e . > > does the same thing. > > Should I be recommending one over the other? > > I'm going to learn toward "pip install -e ." even though I haven't been using > it much personally, as it makes the talk more consistent -- I would then be > able to say, "Always use pip for doing your installing." But I thought I'd > ask about this. It seems that "pip install -e ." is the same as "python > setup.py develop" except that pip runs setup.py with setuptools available, > which addresses a problem where if the maintainer of a package's setup.py > file doesn't "from setuptools import setup", then "python setup.py develop" > won't work, whereas "pip install -e ." will always work. > > Unless I'm mistaken. So the question is -- can someone sanity-check the above? > > I'm hoping to pretend to be an outsider for the purpose of empathizing with > the audience, and yet be enough of an insider to ask people on this list if > what I'm saying is consistent with Modern PyPA Doctrine (which generally I'm > happy to promote). > > -- Asheesh. > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
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