Henry Schreiner

> rather fringe use case Yes, I think this is why setuptools doesn't have it either. I think it's easy to misuse, too. I could see users wanting to set...

Ahh, that's nice that hatchling supports this via a custom build hook. That's similar to the way you can do it with setuptools + wheel, but with those, you have...

Apex was last released 10 years and 10 days ago, and only has a "dev" release, no stable releases. Not sure I'd expect it to work properly. But it does...

This page (https://scikit-hep.org/developer/pytest) along with the related pages cover pytest, might be worth checking out. `pip install -e .` doesn't mean you have to install development requirements. You might want...

> because some other package is being overly restrictive. I've written ~10,000 words on that... https://iscinumpy.dev/post/bound-version-constraints/ There are several other similar linked posts from others of us there too. ;)...

There's not enough here for anyone to help. Putting the traceback in would be a start. You can also ask on `pan-aadhar-ocr` if you think it might be an issue...

There are packages that can't build wheels (I maintain one of them). And there are also packages in the top 360 that are not currently building wheels - I'm sure...

That's weird. It should be quite valid (and personally, every package I work with has it, since I use editable installs for developing, and last I checked a setup.py with...

`pip install -e .` doesn't work because it calls `python setup.py develop`, and with no `setup.py`, that doesn't work. Manual path setting wouldn't allow you to use perfectly valid modern...

It's not the error we normally see with an empty setup.py, which is an opaque one about `x, = thing` not having enough values to unpack. It's a common enough...