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Packaging improvements that could be funded
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Provide more standardized editable installations #24

Closed xmunoz closed 2 years ago

xmunoz commented 3 years ago

Developers of Python projects want to be able to use "editable installations"-- changing the code of applications while simultaneously running those applications. Right now, the support for that kind of usage is rough and not standardized across different tools. Packaging tools maintainers have rough plans for how to standardize the feature and support for it using distutils and setuptools. We would like funding for developing a proof of concept and coordinating subsequent standards changes, tool improvements, and documentation. This requires backend development work, technical writing, and coordination and publicity work within Python's community.

PEP note: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0610/#note-about-editable-installs Issue thread: https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/256

pradyunsg commented 2 years ago

This got resolved with PEP 660 -- https://peps.python.org/pep-0660/