@Matt: Thanks for this detailled explanation.

It's true, that it's not easy to find the right balance between Developer &
(pure) User needs.

In any case, I'd like to say 'thank you' once more for your pip-related Leo
work.


2017-11-26 6:37 GMT+01:00 Matt Wilkie <[email protected]>:

> Thanks Viktor.
>
> This is a known issue, but yet to be documented up front where people see
> it. Basically anything in the root folder of the leo-editor code repository
> is not installed when using pip. This is because they need to be relative
> to `./leo-editor/leo` folder, which make them at the top of
> `./site-packages`, and thus in the global namespace and not part of leo (as
> far as python is concerned).
>
> Before (source code repository view):
>
> leo-editor/leo/*             # <-- this is actually Leo
> leo-editor/pyflakes-leo.py   # <-- this is an extra
>
> After (pip installed):
>
> .../site-packages/leo/*            # <-- this is actually Leo
>
> One solution is to restructure the whole repository into what's called the
> "src layout" (https://blog.ionelmc.ro/2014/05/25/python-packaging/).
> That's a big change.
>
> Alternatively we could move pyflakes and friends into a `./leo/tools`
> subfolder. That's a smaller change, but I don't know how it would impact
> workflow of the people who use them; the change might not be small to them.
> ​
> The decision last week was that people who use LeoPyRef would/should be
> working with the complete development environment, either from a `git clone
> {url} && pip install --editable {path}` or `pip --editable {url}`. The
> thinking being that only people wanting to hack on Leo would be interested
> in the file. Maybe that's not always true(?)
>
> Matt
>
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