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Support for editable installs

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Currently, we cannot convert a pip install -e .... to Pipfile’s format.

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:13 (4 by maintainers)

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ericfrederichcommented, Sep 6, 2017

What about installing the project you’re working on as editable, like pip install --editable . would do? Is this possible?

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techalchemycommented, Jan 9, 2018

@exhuma 9.0.1 has been out for some time and editable installs have been supported via -e for some time

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