# PEP 660: Editable installs for PEP-517 style build backends **URL:** \ **Category:** Packaging\ **Created:** [May 2, 2021, 10:38am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-660-editable-installs-for-pep-517-style-build-backends/8510 "2021-05-02T10:38:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 58
**Author:** ![nhatkhai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/nhatkhai/32/3950_2.png) [@nhatkhai](https://discuss.python.org/u/nhatkhai)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 2:37am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-660-editable-installs-for-pep-517-style-build-backends/8510/58 "2021-05-07T02:37:48Z")
May be this help but I still lost in reading all of this - they all lengthy and sound too complicated to have short explain > [@Standardising editable mode installs (runtime layout - not hooks!)](https://discuss.python.org/t/standardising-editable-mode-installs-runtime-layout-not-hooks/4098): > > Once again, the discussion on editable mode seems to have started going in circles. We now have at least the following threads on the subject: [Offer a “dumb” PEP 517 develop hook](https://discuss.python.org/t/offer-a-dumb-pep-517-develop-hook/3937)[Pip 19.1 and installing in editable mode with pyproject.toml](https://discuss.python.org/t/pip-19-1-and-installing-in-editable-mode-with-pyproject-toml/1553)[Third try on editable installs](https://discuss.python.org/t/third-try-on-editable-installs/3986) I’ve reached the point where I’m convinced that the problem is not about designing hooks to communicate between backends and frontends, but rather the more fundamental question of what “develop mode” or “editable mode” actuall… --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-660-editable-installs-for-pep-517-style-build-backends/8510)._