Discuss PEP 662: Editable installs via virtual wheels

[pradyunsg (Pradyun Gedam)]

On a completely different direction compared to the discussion here, can we rephrase this PEP’s abstract to use the phrasing “pyproject.toml based builds”?

This document describes extensions to the pyproject.toml based builds (as introduced by PEP 517) to allow projects to be installed in editable mode by introducing virtual wheels.

This would help establish an nicer name for the interface defined in PEP 517, especially since there’d now be multiple PEPs defining it. This was previously discussed at:

Name for pyproject.toml builds and PEPs

One of the take aways I have from the discussions I had at PyCon US 2019 is that we need a better name for our PEP 517, 518 and to be written editable installs PEP. Currently, it is trivial for us “experts” to communicate using PEP numbers since we’re all mostly aware of these things and it’s unambiguous. However, a PEP number doesn’t mean much to an average python user. It would probably help if we’re able to think of a name that covers these newer build mechanisms to make it easier to talk a…