Error: editable mode currently requires a setup.py based build

[aktech]

At the moment the README.md suggests to install the package via pip install -e .

I get the following error, when I try to install in editable mode:

ERROR: File "setup.py" not found. Directory cannot be installed in editable mode: /Users/aktech/quansight/python-record-api
(A "pyproject.toml" file was found, but editable mode currently requires a setup.py based build.)

I believe the fix is to change that to:

pip install .

This worked for me.

[saulshanabrook]

Thanks for raising this! Yep, those instructions are wrong. If you wanna install it so that you dont have to reinstall after every change, you can use flit install --symlink. I updated the README with these instructions.

[aktech]

If you wanna install it so that you dont have to reinstall after every change, you can use flit install --symlink.

Nice! that's very cool!