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Is flit install
still necessary?
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Good question! One thing I've considered is making You can also argue that most of the Flit CLI is redundant with tools like |
It looks like
flit install
has been introduced to allow easy development, back whenpip install --editable .
was not working withpyproject.toml
based packaging.Today
pip install --editable .
works and it feels likeflit install
is no longer needed, am I wrong?I fear new users may not understand why
flit install
exist, and use it "just because the README tells so", adding a bit of unnecessary obscurity on this already complicated topic. Also this confusion may push them to think they need "one tool to do everything from venv creation to dependency solving" instead of "tools that do one thing and do it well". Showing them thatpip install .
andpip install -e .
"naturally" works would be nice from this point of view.In order to keep
flit
simple (for maintainers too!) shouldflit install
be slowly deprecated? Maybe at first by replacing it from the README bypip install --editable .
?Or an I missing something?
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