On Thu, Nov 24, 2016, at 08:07 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > Just curious - how does flit handle Windows for this? Symlinks aren't > really an option there (you need elevation to create a symlink). > Paul
It largely doesn't at present; it started out as a personal tool for me, and I mostly use Linux. I have a few ideas about how to deal with Windows, though: - There's a feature called NTFS Junction Points, which is supposed to be like symlinks, but only for directories. I believe these can be created by regular users without elevated permissions. It might be possible to use this for packages, albeit not for single file directories. - Create a script/tool to give a user the permission bit that allows creating symlinks, so users who know what they're doing can enable it. Maybe there's some reason it's admin-only by default, though? It's safe enough for normal users on Unix, but I don't know how different Windows is. - Run a daemon to watch package folders and reinstall on any changes, something like Nathaniel mentioned with 'pip watch'. I probably wouldn't do this as part of flit, but I'd be happy to see it as a separate tool. As Nathaniel pointed out, this can actually support more stuff than setuptools editable installs, or my symlinks, because it can re-run build steps. Thomas _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
