Using setuptools

[Vlad Skvortsov]

David Wolever wrote:


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>> Just to understand better, what difficulties does the current state 
>> of things pose to you, David?
> Basically, it makes it hard for me to "get tinkering" with dt.
> I'd like it to be as simple as possible for someone to grab the SVN 
> source and start poking around, fixing bugs, adding features, what 
> have you.
>
> I think life could be made better having a `setup.py develop`, but 
> since there may be disadvantages to that, a couple of lines in the 
> README saying "run `ln -s ...` to start developing" could make life 
> better too.
>
> (mmm yes, life would have been a lot better if I'd just said that to 
> begin with... I appreciate the patience :) )

Hmm, I'm still not getting it. :-) Why can't you just check out the 
source and work from that working copy? Why do you need the package to 
be installed?

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