Standardising editable mode installs (runtime layout - not hooks!)

[ofek (Ofek Lev)]

PEP-660 support and IDEs

Seems that neither IDEs I’ve run into until now supports PEP-660 editables as shipped today by pip. The current logic works out at runtime however the IDE is unaware of the package and does not provide autocomplete. I consider this an important feature gap, so I’d like to start a discussion on how we can add/help IDEs supporting it. The current mechanism as used by most backends is defined by GitHub - pfmoore/editables and maintained by @pf_moore . In short, the functionality is: a pth file t…