[Distutils] Re: Development installation with pyproject.toml/poetry?

2020-07-01 Thread Fredrik Averpil
Hi Thomas, After having read your email, I read up and realized that I can completely remove the setup.py file and rather than performing a development installation with pip, I use poetry. I can define the package in pyproject.toml using the path directive:

[Distutils] Re: Development installation with pyproject.toml/poetry?

2020-07-01 Thread Tzu-ping Chung
To supplement what Thomas said, yes, there is current some development effort in standardising development/editable installs. Much of the discussion happens here: https://discuss.python.org/t/next-steps-for-editable-develop-proof-of-concept/4118 > On 01/7, 2020, at 17:15, Thomas Kluyver

[Distutils] Re: Development installation with pyproject.toml/poetry?

2020-07-01 Thread Thomas Kluyver
Hi Fredrik, You can do an editable install using whichever development tool you've chosen, e.g. Poetry. The poetry docs (https://python-poetry.org/docs/basic-usage/) say it does an editable install by default. Currently, there isn't a standardised way for 'frontend' tools like pip to ask for