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| author | PJ Eby <distutils-sig@python.org> | 2005-07-24 02:41:44 +0000 |
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| committer | PJ Eby <distutils-sig@python.org> | 2005-07-24 02:41:44 +0000 |
| commit | baaa492f8f3100a24d723a7bb6c1d4c13295d5fb (patch) | |
| tree | e8cc9c962a720f5f1a056498211355ccda534888 /setuptools.txt | |
| parent | 20851ca9363b0fded18d42c3bd0f2dd2105f5093 (diff) | |
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Implement --editable option, which allows you to just download and extract
(or check out from Subversion) one or more source distributions, without
actually building or installing them (or their dependencies).
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branch : setuptools
extra : convert_revision : svn%3A6015fed2-1504-0410-9fe1-9d1591cc4771/sandbox/trunk/setuptools%4041147
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diff --git a/setuptools.txt b/setuptools.txt index bc6747c8..d00e6d92 100755 --- a/setuptools.txt +++ b/setuptools.txt @@ -783,6 +783,14 @@ downloading unless it has a version included in the ``#egg=`` suffix, and it's a higher version than EasyInstall has seen in any other links for your project. +As a result, it's a common practice to use mark checkout URLs with a version of +"dev" (i.e., ``#egg=projectname-dev``), so that users can do something like +this:: + + easy_install --editable projectname==dev + +in order to check out the in-development version of ``projectname``. + Distributing Extensions compiled with Pyrex ------------------------------------------- |