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

[Paul Moore]

On 31 March 2016 at 11:46, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <contact at ionelmc.ro> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> If this feature were working in setuptools, would pip need any changes
>> to "install -e" to allow passing along this extra info to setuptools,
>> or is there already a mechanism to allow pass-through of extra
>> setuptools options?
>
>
> Pip install has the --install-option and --global-option arguments, try your
> luck with them - they are for fairly advanced usecases. Pip already passes
> other options so there's risk of breakages or weird issues if you pass
> conflicting options.

Setuptools also supports the standard setup.cfg mechanism. That may be
an easier alternative.
Paul