[Distutils] question re: local development workflow / egg-info / synced directories

[Ionel Cristian Mărieș]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek at gmail.com>
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.​

You could manually create the egg-info (setup.py egg_info
--egg-base=somewhere) and do the linking manually. I'm preeeety sure my
suggestion will raise some eyebrows here :)



Thanks,
-- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro
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