Restore tip about editable installs

Experiments with pip 21.1 confirm that it can use editable mode even
when `setup.py` is missing.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/docs/userguide/quickstart.rst b/docs/userguide/quickstart.rst
index 276aaf73..79b5d13e 100644
--- a/docs/userguide/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/userguide/quickstart.rst
@@ -338,28 +338,11 @@ Here's how to do it::
 This creates a link file in your interpreter site package directory which
 associate with your source code. For more information, see :doc:`development_mode`.
 
-..
-    TODO: Restore the following note once PEP 660 lands in setuptools.
-    tip: Prior to :ref:`pip v21.1 <pip:v21-1>`, a ``setup.py`` script was
-    required to be compatible with development mode. With late
-    versions of pip, any project may be installed in this mode.
-
 .. tip::
-    If you are experimenting with :doc:`configuration using
-    <pyproject_config>`, or have version of ``pip`` older than :ref:`v21.1 <pip:v21-1>`,
-    you might need to keep a ``setup.py`` file in file in your repository if
-    you want to use editable installs (for the time being).
-
-    A simple script will suffice, for example:
-
-    .. code-block:: python
 
-        from setuptools import setup
-
-        setup()
-
-    You can still keep all the configuration in :doc:`setup.cfg </userguide/declarative_config>`
-    (or :doc:`pyproject.toml </userguide/pyproject_config>`).
+    Prior to :ref:`pip v21.1 <pip:v21-1>`, a ``setup.py`` script was
+    required to be compatible with development mode. With late
+    versions of pip, any project may be installed in this mode.
 
 
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