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aider is AI pair programming in your terminal
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developing Aider using Aider? #1872

Closed lockmeister closed 2 weeks ago

lockmeister commented 3 weeks ago

Issue

I cloned aider and made some edits locally. I used aider itself to assist (installed globally using pipx to avoid conflicts). I ran my local branch as per the instructions using pip install -e . , in a local virtual environment (I use venv). There seemed to be an issue with the repo map, as I switched between test driving my local version of aider, and using the global aider to code.

My next thing to try is to create a dedicated folder outside the development repo to safely use the local aider and test it. Set up a virtual environment in that folder and install the development version via pip install -e path-to-development-repo

Can anyone suggest a better workflow to avoid this issue while working on aider? Any other tips for developing aider?

paul-gauthier commented 2 weeks ago

Thanks for trying aider and filing this issue.

Sorry, what is "this issue" that you're trying to avoid. I develop aider and run it with a pip install -e . approach.