Filipe Laíns 🇵🇸

That is just a future plan, which would be similar to what you described initially with the `.pth` file. Right now the simplest approach is just to put symlinks in...

Yeah, I was looking into that. The issue is that pypa/wheel does not support extracting symlinks, making this approach unusable, as most projects use it to extract wheels. We will...

Implemented in #87, we will go through a pre-release before a proper release with the new feature.

I wonder if a custom loader built on top of the [`Traversable`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.resources.abc.html#importlib.resources.abc.Traversable) protocol will behave correctly here. If it doesn't, we may be able to fix it in pdb, but...

The only reasonable solution I can think of right now is to skip the `meson install` step, and do the install ourselves, using symlinks, as @rgommers proposed above.

Yes, I believe that it would, but we would only know for sure until we try it. But for now, what I mentioned above should be enough, if having a...

Going this route is possible, but seems a little bit hard. AFAICT the goal here is to only change the package version in one place, @lithomas1 have you considered rewriting...

> How does that help in getting the version into the sdist/wheel name? That is the one missing piece here; Pandas, SciPy et al. already have ways of generating `__version__`...

This is just an initial implementation, it will likely not be merged.

This new implementation uses import hooks, which is what I wanted to do initially. Since the complexity required to make the old approach work turned out to be a bit...