Dan Ryan

How about relying on pip...

Literally just had this convo on an issue. Of course it does. You literally can’t actually build editable installs without first installing the specified build tools. That was the point...

The challenge of editable installs has basically nothing to do with how you link source code into a virtualenv which is why we are talking past each other. You’re talking...

wait why are we still using this directly?

I'm curious about which things you have in mind here

Dependency links go away next release of pip, I confirmed that. The rest of it isn't actually that complicated, it's just parsing logic which is a pain in the ass....

@uranusjr I think this can use a look, the PR says it is adding tests but there is a bit more going on -- significantly * There is some refactor...

> I don’t feel comfortable Passa needs to depend on Mork. I still intend Passa to be run strictly inside the target environment, and virtual environment management does not belong...

> the project should just take an abstract idea of an “environment” I felt this way the entire time I was working on this but I wasn't sure exactly how...

Refactoring out the virtualenv stuff as is and trying to make an abstraction that handles any environment based on a prefix / set of paths is not really workable so...