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Author eric.araujo
Recipients alexis, eric.araujo, paul.moore, tarek, vinay.sajip
Date 2012-02-11.05:48:06
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Message-id <1328939287.71.0.742015489171.issue13175@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> I just did pip install distutils2 in a virtualenv. If that doesn't work then yes,
> I got the wrong one :-(
You need to get a development repo to make patches, not a released version, just like for CPython.

> Do I need to hg clone then do some magic pip incantation to get it installed?
Why would you want to install it?  Clone it, hack on it in place, run tests in place.  :)

FTR, “bin/pip install -e .” is the command to “install” a project in develop (or editable) mode with pip in a virtualenv.
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2012-02-11 05:48:07eric.araujosetrecipients: + eric.araujo, paul.moore, vinay.sajip, tarek, alexis
2012-02-11 05:48:07eric.araujosetmessageid: <1328939287.71.0.742015489171.issue13175@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012-02-11 05:48:07eric.araujolinkissue13175 messages
2012-02-11 05:48:06eric.araujocreate