On 31 March 2016 at 10:00, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Chris Jerdonek <[email protected]> > 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 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
