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authorSviatoslav Sydorenko <wk.cvs.github@sydorenko.org.ua>2019-05-26 19:46:36 +0200
committerSviatoslav Sydorenko <wk@sydorenko.org.ua>2020-01-14 12:09:13 +0100
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📝 Improve the note about editable installs
Co-Authored-By: Paul Ganssle <pganssle@users.noreply.github.com>
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@@ -2207,7 +2207,7 @@ only a ``setuptools.setup()`` call.
.. note::
:pep:`517` doesn't support editable installs so this is currently
- incompatible with ``pip install -e .``.
+ incompatible with ``pip install -e .``, as :pep:`517` does not support editable installs.
This means that you can have a Python project with all build configuration
specified in ``setup.cfg``, without a ``setup.py`` file, if you **can rely