Thomas Kluyver

Hmm. I've got a feeling I remember that there's something odd about the way virtualenvs work on Windows, but I don't remember what it is. :confused: Does `pip install .`...

There's work towards a standardised mechanism for editable installs, so `pip install -e .` will work - this is [PEP 660](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0660/), and PR #400 here. That said, I may still...

I'm not aware of anything like that; let me know if you find/make one. :slightly_smiling_face:

> I'm not really sure that approach is a good fit for our infrastructure which tends to do fairly strict build/install separation. OK, fair enough. I won't go anywhere with...

> I could easily refactor this to cover more use cases like ours I think. Would that be something upstream-able?... there's 2 stages that I'm seeing here that would be...

>> What are these missing? > Stuff like the --root flag I guess.... Again, there's nothing this needs `--root` for. Whatever path you would pass there, you just prepend to...

> Well they don't seem to devendor tomli from what I can tell. Debian devendor everything, as far as I can see (debundle.patch). Though the version of pip they're packaging...

I'm not going to try to reply to everything, because this discussion is sucking up way too much time. But I'll note that I don't see unzipping wheels for a...

My initial inclination is to say it's out of scope - I'm not aware of any tools that consume it, and for telling humans about external requirements, I think you're...

Sorry, I'm a bit confused. Could you describe exactly what you're trying and what error you see? I've just tried removing the docstring from a package and then doing `pip...