Carl Meyer <c...@dirtcircle.com> added the comment:

> Ah, higery’s code already has an answer for me: it writes *two* paths in the 
> .pth file, one to the build dir (so that .dist-info is found) and one to the 
> modules root (for modules, built in place).  Anyone sees a problem with that? 
>  (For example huge sys.path.)
> 
> In this scheme, when Python modules are edited, changes are visible 
> instantly, when C modules are edited, a call to build_ext is required, and 
> when the metadata is edited, build_distinfo is required.  Does that sound 
> good?

That sounds reasonable to me. I'm not worried about that making sys.path
too long: whatever we do we aren't going to challenge buildout in that
department ;-)

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