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| author | Sviatoslav Sydorenko <webknjaz@redhat.com> | 2021-11-12 23:56:44 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-11-12 23:56:44 +0100 |
| commit | ba39e1851f02fa27b425f616d13c2b07298c63d5 (patch) | |
| tree | 4490639abcb68d8f7dead045d630e41f7ef4bb83 /docs | |
| parent | 474b3031785d13569cc92fc9280bd5688d4f1f71 (diff) | |
| download | python-setuptools-git-ba39e1851f02fa27b425f616d13c2b07298c63d5.tar.gz | |
Improve the mention of pip version that doesn't need `setup.py`
Co-authored-by: Jason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/userguide/quickstart.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/userguide/quickstart.rst b/docs/userguide/quickstart.rst index 9c1d84f9..6bf353a0 100644 --- a/docs/userguide/quickstart.rst +++ b/docs/userguide/quickstart.rst @@ -189,8 +189,9 @@ Development mode .. tip:: - When there is no ``setup.py`` script present, this is only - compatible with :pep:`517` since :ref:`pip v21.1 <pip:v21-1>`. + 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. ``setuptools`` allows you to install a package without copying any files to your interpreter directory (e.g. the ``site-packages`` directory). |