[Question] Why is a "force included" package not deployed from sdist?

Hi @ofek et al.,

I hope I’m not off-topic in asking this here. I apologize if I am.

I am using hatch in a project and “force including” a package from a directory outside the project’s directory like so:

[tool.hatch.build.force-include]
"../../Utils/Aws" = "Utils/AWS"

When I build my project with hatch build -t sdist I can see that the files in the above directory are included in the .tar.gz file alongside my project’s code directory.

However, when I install the .tar.gz using pip like so: pip install my-package.tar.gz --no-deps I find that my code fails when trying to import the Utils.AWS package. Having peeked in Lib/site-packages I can’t find the Utils directory there.

Am I missing something when building the .tar.gz. or in how I setup pyproject.toml?

Thanks, @urig

PS - I’ve noticed that the .tar.gz. file does not contain an “egg-info” directory with its SOURCES.txt file. Could this be related to my issue?

[urig]

Sorry. Will verify tomorrow morning and report.

[ofek]

Ah I see, this only affects dev mode/editable installations. I’ll fix