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Misleading error message when using PEP 517 and editable installs

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I still cannot install a directory with a pyproject.toml and no setup.py (Poetry package.)

Directory '/path/to/project' is not installable. File 'setup.py' not found.

What am I doing wrong?

_Originally posted by @lorinkoz in https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6106#issuecomment-456642825_

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pfmoorecommented, Mar 12, 2019

None, I was going off what I recalled being said in the PEP 517 discussions. Things seem to have moved on, which is good, but it would still need a new PEP to standardise the interface for editable installs between build frontends and backends. And as I said, there are no plans for that at the moment.

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